The interactive animal map of the world

Spin the globe, zoom into any region and open a species to see where it actually lives. 4,248 mammals plotted across 175 countries, out of the 6,036 the IUCN Red List has assessed — each with its Red List status, and a written profile wherever we have researched one.

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An interactive globe of the world's mammals, mapped from IUCN Red List assessments.

What you can explore on the animal map

Animal World Map is a wildlife map you can spin, zoom and search. Every marker on the globe is a real species with a Red List assessment behind it, placed where that animal has actually been recorded, so instead of reading that an animal lives “in Asia”, you can see the mountains, coastlines and river basins its range is tied to.

The globe carries 4,248 mammal species across 175 countries and 7 continents, drawn from the 6,036 mammals the Red List has assessed — every one of which has a page here. 925 of them carry a full written profile: scientific name, conservation status, the habitats they depend on, what they eat, how they breed, the threats they face and the conservation work under way. The rest are listed from their Red List assessment while we research them, and you can ask for any of them to be written next.

It is built for the questions people actually ask about wildlife: where a species lives, what its habitat looks like, how much ground its distribution still covers compared with what it once did, and how close it is to disappearing. Teachers, students, travellers planning where to look for an animal, and anyone who followed a photo down a rabbit hole all end up needing the same thing, a map with the species data attached to it.

Species mapped: 4,248
Countries covered: 175
Threatened species: 1,364
Data updated: August 9, 2026

Explore animals by continent

Every continent solved the problem of being an animal differently, because each was isolated for a different length of time. Africa kept its large mammals, South America evolved its own from scratch, Australia never had placental mammals at all. Each page explains what shaped that fauna and lists the species recorded there.

All the ways to explore

Browse animals by conservation status

The IUCN Red List sorts every assessed species into one of nine categories, from Least Concern to Extinct. It is the closest thing wildlife has to a global scoreboard, and it is the fastest way into the catalogue: pick a category to see which of the mapped species sit in it.

The most endangered animals on the map

These 48 species carry the Red List's heaviest categories: Critically Endangered first, then Endangered. Several of them survive on a single mountain range or one stretch of coast, which is exactly what a distribution map makes obvious and a paragraph of text does not. Open one for its range, its habitat and its Red List assessment.

Browse the full species catalog

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Questions about the map and the data

Where does the species data come from?

Every species page is built from IUCN Red List assessments, the reference source for conservation status, population trend and geographic range, combined with photographs contributed to iNaturalist. The catalogue mirrors the 6,036 mammals currently assessed on the Red List, and each one has a page here.

How many animals are on the map?

4,248 species carry a marker on the globe today, spanning 175 countries across 7 continents. All 6,036 assessed mammals are listed and have a page, but only 925 have a full written profile so far. You can ask for any of the others to be researched next.

How often is the map updated?

The species dataset was last refreshed on August 9, 2026. The IUCN publishes new Red List versions several times a year, and each one is folded in: conservation status, population estimates and range descriptions are re-checked against the latest assessment.

How many of these animals are endangered?

1364 of the 6036 assessed species are threatened, that is the IUCN definition, covering the Vulnerable, Endangered and Critically Endangered categories. Of those, 238 are Critically Endangered, the last category before extinction in the wild.

Is Animal World Map free to use?

Yes. The world map, the species catalogue and the blog are free and need no account. Credits are only used for the optional extras: talking to the AI wildlife guide and generating narrated animal stories.

Can I see which animals live in a specific place?

Yes. Every continent has its own page listing the species recorded there, the countries they cross and their conservation status. You can also zoom the map to a region, or search the catalogue by name, each entry gives the countries and habitats its Red List assessment names.