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  1. Endangered species - Wikipedia

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    The relation between wildlife smuggling, other environment crimes under the Brazilian law such as deforestation, and endangered species is particularly intricate and troubling since the rarer the animal or plant gets the most targeted and valuable they become in the black market, which leads to more endangered species in its turn.

  2. IUCN Red List - Wikipedia

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    The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. [1] A series of Regional Red Lists, which assess the risk of extinction to species within a ...

  3. The world's 100 most threatened species - Wikipedia

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    Silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus), fewer than 1,000 still alive. The World's 100 most threatened species[1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission ...

  4. World Wide Fund for Nature - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. [5] It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States.

  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. Wildlife conservation - Wikipedia

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    Wildlife conservation. Ankeny Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation ...