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  2. Endemism - Wikipedia

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    The word endemic is from Neo-Latin endēmicus, from Greek ἔνδημος, éndēmos, "native". Endēmos is formed of en meaning "in", and dēmos meaning "the people". [5] The word entered the English language as a loan word from French endémique, and originally seems to have been used in the sense of diseases that occur at a constant amount in a country, as opposed to epidemic diseases ...

  3. Wikipedia:Conservation status - Wikipedia

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    Critically Endangered (CR): faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. Examples: Slender-billed Curlew , Spanish Lynx , Red Wolf . Extinct in the Wild ( EW ): captive individuals survive, and/or the species has been reintroduced outside its former natural range, but the species otherwise matches the criteria for ...

  4. Endangered species - Wikipedia

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    Golden lion tamarin, an endemic and one of the endangered species saved from extinction in Brazil A visual representation of the declining percentages of endangered plant and animal species in Brazil from 2014 to 2022. The sidebar graph highlights the contrast between plant and animal conservation efforts.

  5. Conservation status - Wikipedia

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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

  6. Is COVID now endemic? Here's what experts say. - AOL

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    What’s the difference between endemic and pandemic? A pandemic is a disease outbreak, or epidemic, that is typically widespread — meaning, ...

  7. IUCN Red List - Wikipedia

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    Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered. Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 Red List criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention. Near Threatened (NT) – close to being endangered in the near future.

  8. Threatened species - Wikipedia

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    They may be used interchangeably in most contexts however, as all vulnerable species are threatened species (vulnerable is a category of threatened species); and, as the more at-risk categories of threatened species (namely endangered and critically endangered) must, by definition, also qualify as vulnerable species, all threatened species may ...

  9. Is COVID now endemic? Here's what experts say. - AOL

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