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This list is of Red Lists, Red Data Books, and related initiatives that assess and document the extinction risk of species, whether on an international or more local level (regional Red Lists). The IUCN has published a set of Guidelines for Application of the IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels and at least 113 countries have ...
This is a list of the bird and mammal species and subspecies described as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It contains species and subspecies not only in the U.S. and its territories, but also those only found in other parts of the world. It does not include endangered fish, amphibians, reptiles, plants, or invertebrates.
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Please follow the IUCN Red List when you add or remove species, subspecies, varieties, stocks or sub-populations. For brevity use binomial or trinomial nomenclature only, that is, omit common names and the name of the scientific authority.
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.
Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate change-fueled drought — that US wildlife officials announced a proposal on ...
As of December 2023, of the 157,190 species currently on the IUCN Red List, 9,760 of those are listed as critically endangered, with 1,302 being possibly extinct and 67 possibly extinct in the wild. [2] The IUCN Red List provides the public with information regarding the conservation status of animal, fungi, and plant species. [3]
An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. [1] As of 2021, of the 120,372 species currently tracked by the IUCN, there are 8,404 species that are considered to be critically ...