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The IUCN assessed a total of 63,837 species which revealed 19,817 are threatened with extinction. [20] 3,947 were described as "critically endangered" and 5,766 as "endangered", while more than 10,000 species are listed as "vulnerable". [21]
Using species data from the Database on the Economics and Management of Endangered Species database and the period that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been in existence, 1970 to 1997, a table was created that suggests a positive relationship between human activity and species endangerment.
The terms can be used somewhat interchangeably, as all vulnerable species are threatened, all endangered species are vulnerable and threatened, and all critically endangered species are endangered, vulnerable and threatened. Threatened species are also referred to as a red-listed species, as they are listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
In Finland, many species are protected under the Nature Conservation Act, and through the EU Habitats Directive and EU Birds Directive. [7] In Germany, the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation publishes "red lists of endangered species". India has the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972, Amended 2003 and the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
However, an assessment of available data prompted the IUCN to move the species from the “Vulnerable” to the “Critically Endangered” category due to the revelation that the total population ...
A beaked whale is any of at least 22 species of whale in the family Ziphiidae. Several species have only been described in the last two decades. Six genera have been identified. They possess a unique feeding mechanism among cetaceans known as suction feeding. They are characterized by having a lower jaw that extends at least to the tip of the ...
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
Critically endangered (CR) species face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of July 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 1,000 critically endangered fish species, including 87 which are tagged as possibly extinct. [1] [2] Of all evaluated fish species, 3.0% are listed as critically endangered ...