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This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 150 wild mammal fauna of Turkey. Two are critically endangered, two are endangered, fourteen are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. The following tags are used to highlight each species' global status as published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
The wildlife of Turkey is abundant and diverse. Turkey is a large country with many geographic and climatic regions and a great diversity of plants and animals, each suited to its own particular habitat. About 1,500 species of vertebrates and 19,000 species of invertebrates have been recorded in the country. Some of the world's staple crops ...
Caracal: One of Turkey's wild cats Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates). The fauna of Turkey is abundant and very varied. The wildlife of Turkey includes a great diversity of plants and animals, each suited to its own particular habitat, as it is a large country with many geographic and climatic regions About 1500 species of vertebrates have been recorded in the country and around ...
Russ Mittermeier, chief of Swiss-based IUCN's Primate Specialist Group, stated that 16,306 species are endangered with extinction, 188 more than in 2006 (total of 41,415 species on the Red List). The Red List includes the Sumatran orangutan ( Pongo abelii ) in the Critically Endangered category and the Bornean orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) in ...
Chorthippus bozdaghi was described by Boris Uvarov in 1934 alongside Chorthippus ilkazi, another Turkish endemic which he considered closely related to C. bozadaghi. [2] The holotype specimen was an adult male collected in 1931 by Uvarov himself from the Bozdağ Mountains. [3]
Recently, however, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) added this species to its list of Critically Endangered animals. While the situation seems dire ...
The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, [3] [4] [5] is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed. [ 6 ] Approximately 6,000 are left in the wild as of 2024.
In Afghanistan, it was included in the country's Protected Species List in 2009. [1] In Kazakhstan, hunting was made a criminal offence in 2021. [98] In Turkey the leopard is one of the species in the action plan being prepared for the country's endangered species. [99]