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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.
Poecilia chica has been known to science since 1939 and was subject to experiments in 1957, but was only formally described in 1975. It belongs to the Poecilia sphenops species complex. [2] P. chica is most closely related to the populations of P. sphenops inhabiting the waters of the Pacific slope of Central America.
Full text Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at Wikisource CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora , also known as the Washington Convention ) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of ...
Micrarionta opuntia, known as the prickly pear island snail, pricklypear islandsnail, or prickly pear snail, is a species of land snail in the family Xanthonychidae. [1] [2] [3] It is endemic to California, first formally described in 1975.
(Savage, 1975) Craugastor angelicus , commonly known as the angel robber frog , is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae . It is endemic to Costa Rica.
The critically endangered black rhinoceros is a focus of TRAFFIC's conservation efforts. TRAFFIC established 13 more offices worldwide in Europe (1990), East/Southern Africa (1991), and East Asia (1994).
Puntius shalynius Yazdani & Talukdar, 1975 The Shalyni barb ( Pethia shalynius ), is a species of cyprinid fish found in hill streams of Meghalaya , India , A report from Assam may be mistaken. [ 1 ]
This category was removed in the IUCN 3.x criteria, promoting its subcategories to full categories. LC (Least Concern, formally LR/lc), species that have been evaluated and found to be so common that no conservation concern is projected in the foreseeable future. Examples: Red fox, House sparrow, Red maple, Atlantic mackerel