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This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece.Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
This subspecies, M. l. schweizeri, is classified as endangered by the IUCN; less than 4000 adult individuals exist in the wild as of 2022. [1] Furthermore, a continuing decline is observed due to being killed by feral cats, [8] persecution and over-collecting by collectors, and its habitat continues to decline in extent and quality. [1]
Pungitius hellenicus, the Greek ninespine stickleback or ellinopygósteos, is a species of fish in the family Gasterosteidae. It is endemic to Greece. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater spring. It is threatened by habitat loss and considered critically endangered in the International Red List of IUCN, Bern Convention (Appendix III).
It is a meeting point for birds of three continents, the southern limit for some species and the northern limit for others. Beside the resident bird populations, many migratory species visit the country as they move seasonally between their breeding grounds and their overwintering areas. About 450 species of bird have been recorded in Greece. [9]
The Balkan lynx is found in the southwestern Balkans; in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and potentially Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. [1] This is home to a critically endangered population of the Balkan lynx, with an estimated population of 30 adult individuals over 5000 km 2. [19]
The Karpathos frog (Pelophylax cerigensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.It is endemic to the islands of Karpathos and Rhodes, South Aegean Sea, Greece.The Karpathos frog was considered to be the most endangered anuran amphibian in Europe, and was until recently classified as Critically endangered, because it was though it's range was restricted to two small rivers in the north ...
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
Two species for which there is an IUCN Red List assessment are not included in the Atlas (Balkan spadefoot, Pelobates balcanicus LC smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris LC). The IUCN Red List appears to no longer count Greece as one of the countries within the Syrian spadefoot's range, even though the species occurs on a number of Greek islands.