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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. [3] Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
[2] [6] The Green Status complements the Red List assessment but does not replace it: both assessments are performed by the IUCN for a given species and, with the exception of species extinct in the wild that would require reintroduction as a conservation measure and whose current Green Score is by definition 0%, one status does not determine ...
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
Species that are considered Conservation- Dependent are under the lower risk category of status in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The category of species may change and vary depending on its status in its environment. The lower risk status section has three categories that species may fluctuate through. Near Threatened (NT)
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the best-known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. [ 8 ] Over 50% of the world's species are estimated to be at risk of extinction, [ 9 ] but the frontier between categories such as 'endangered', 'rare', or 'locally extinct' species is often difficult to draw given the general ...
LRE - Knowledge product of IUCN/CEM. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) is a global framework for monitoring and documenting the status of ecosystems. It was developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature for biodiversity risk assessment. Its main objectives are to support conservation, resource use, and management decisions ...
Appendix I contains highly threatened species; most of these are assessed by IUCN or TNC too however. Appendix II includes lesser-threatened and look-alike species; this status may be used for the former if no formal status evaluation by IUCN etc exists. Appendix III does not include globally threatened species; "CITES_A3" is not to be used ...
The IUCN Red List is a list of species which have been assessed according to a system of assigning a global conservation status. According to the latest system used by the IUCN, a species can be "Data Deficient" (DD) species – species for which more data and assessment is required before their situation may be determined – as well species ...