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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
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 ]
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 ...
The NatureServe conservation status system, maintained and presented by NatureServe in cooperation with the Natural Heritage Network, was developed in the United States in the 1980s by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as a means for ranking or categorizing the relative imperilment of species of plants, animals, or other organisms, as well as natural ecological communities, on the global, national ...
As of July 2021, the IUCN lists 14,033 animal species and 6,635 plant species as least concern. [1] No least concern assessments have been made for taxa of other kingdoms. Lists: Animals (kingdom Animalia) Amphibians — List of least concern amphibians; Birds — List of least concern birds; Fish — List of least concern fishes
This endangered cetacean is not only the smallest porpoise species, but the most rare. Where there were once thousands of vaquitas swimming in the sea, today there may only be about 10 individuals ...
There are five species of rhinos in the world. Three of them, including the Javan rhino, are critically endangered, while two are threatened. The Javan rhino is the most endangered of the five ...
The California condor is a critically endangered species, with only 350 left “and a significant piece of that population lives in ground zero of where these fires have happened,” Corwin noted.