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The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is one of the dozens of US environmental laws passed in the 1970s, and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Designed to protect critically ...
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 ...
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015. [1] This list follows the Society's taxonomy regarding and subspecies.
Appendix I: Endangered migratory species: Appendix I: species that are the most endangered: Least concern (LC or LR/lc) Lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category. Sousa chinensis: Chinese white dolphin Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin 中華白海豚 Zhōnghuá bái hǎitún
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 ...
The Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals are considered to be one of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet, according to the NOAA. [31] The last sighting of the Caribbean monk seal was in 1952, and it has now been confirmed extinct by the NOAA. [33] [34] The vaquita porpoise, discovered in 1958, has become the most endangered marine ...
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
Blue-throated macaw, a critically endangered bird Brown spider monkey, a critically endangered mammal Siamese crocodile, a critically endangered reptile American burying beetle, an endangered species of insect Kemp's ridley sea turtle, a critically endangered reptile The Mexican wolf, the most endangered subspecies of the North American grey ...