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People in central Bhutan consider red pandas to be reincarnations of Buddhist monks. Some tribal people in northeast India and the Yi people believe that it brings good luck to wear red panda tails or hats made of its fur. [101] In China, the fur is used for local cultural ceremonies. At weddings, the bridegroom traditionally carries the hide.
Species endangered in the wild by the pet trade, including non-animal domestic species such as ornamental plants.; It is generally a sublist of IUCN Red List species.; If a species is threatened, and wild-caught for the trade, it may be included in this category even if the scale of the threat posed by capture is unknown (as is often the case, especially if capture is illegal).
The red panda, deemed endangered by the World Wildlife Fund, is native to China and India. It is not at all closely related to the giant panda , despite having a similar name.
Sadly, red panda populations have decreased by 40% over the last 50 years. WWF estimates there are fewer than 10,000 red pandas left in the wild of Asia's high forests and they are listed as ...
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
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Birds — List of critically endangered birds; Fish — List of critically endangered fishes; Invertebrates — List of critically endangered invertebrates. Arthropods — List of critically endangered arthropods. Insects — List of critically endangered insects; Molluscs List of critically endangered molluscs; Mammals — List of critically ...