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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 (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
The Red List of 2012 was released 19 July 2012 at Rio+20 Earth Summit; [17] nearly 2,000 species were added, [18] with 4 species to the extinct list, 2 to the rediscovered list. [19] The IUCN assessed a total of 63,837 species which revealed 19,817 are threatened with extinction.
Current events; Random article; ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... It has been estimated there are as many as 7.77 million animal species on Earth. Animal ...
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Insects make up the vast majority of animal species. [14]Chapman, 2005 and 2009 [9] has attempted to compile perhaps the most comprehensive recent statistics on numbers of extant species, drawing on a range of published and unpublished sources, and has come up with a figure of approximately 1.9 million estimated described taxa, as against possibly a total of between 11 and 12 million ...
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
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or little earth hutia Mesocapromys sanfelipensis Varona & Garrido, 1970: Rodentia: 1978 1: Cuba One-striped opossum: Monodelphis unistriata Wagner, 1842: Didelphimorphia: 1899 1: Gloomy tube-nosed bat: Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970: Chiroptera: 1962 1: Tsushima Island and possibly Yaku Island, Japan New Zealand greater short-tailed bat ...