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[IceWizard]

Friday 20 May 2016

National Endangered Species Day



An Endangered (EN) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as likely to become extinct.

"Endangered" is the second most severe conservation status for wild populations in the IUCN's schema after Critically Endangered (CR).

In 2012, the IUCN Red List featured 3079 animal and 2655 plant species as endangered (EN) worldwide. The figures for 1998 were, respectively, 1102 and 1197 Many nations have laws that protect conservation-reliant species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves.Population numbers, trends and species' conservation status can be found in the lists of organisms by population.

Red List


The Siberian tiger is an Endangered (EN) tiger subspecies. Three tiger subspecies are already extinct



Blue-throated macaw



Brown spider monkey



Siamese crocodile



Malayan tiger



Kemp's ridley sea turtle


The IUCN categories, with examples of animals classified by them, include:

Extinct (EX)

Examples:

aurochs Bali tiger, blackfin cisco, Caribbean monk seal, Carolina parakeet, Caspian tiger, dodo, dusky seaside sparrow, eastern cougar, golden toad, great auk, Japanese sea lion, Javan tiger, Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, Schomburgk's deer, Steller's sea cow, thylacine, toolache wallaby, western black rhinoceros, California Grizzly Bear.

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Extinct in the wild (EW)
Captive individuals survive, but there is no free-living, natural population.


Examples:

Barbary lion, Hawaiian crow, Père David's deer, scimitar, oryx, Socorro dove, Wyoming toad.

Critically endangered (CR)
Faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future.


Examples:

addax, African wild ass, Alabama cavefish, Amur leopard, Arakan forest turtle, Asiatic cheetah, axolotl, Bactrian camel, black rhino, blue-throated macaw, Brazilian merganser, brown spider monkey, California condor, Chinese alligator, Chinese giant salamander, gharial, Hawaiian monk seal, Javan rhino, kakapo, Leadbeater's possum, Mediterranean monk seal, mountain gorilla, northern hairy-nosed wombat, Philippine eagle, red wolf, saiga, Siamese crocodile, Malayan tiger, Spix's macaw, southern bluefin tuna, South China tiger, Sumatran orangutan, Sumatran rhinoceros, Sumatran tiger, vaquita, Yangtze river dolphin, northern white rhinoceros, hawksbill sea turtle, Kemp's ridley sea turtle,

Endangered (EN)
Faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.


Examples:

African penguin, African wild dog, Asian elephant, Asiatic lion, Australasian bittern, blue whale, bonobo, Bornean orangutan, common chimpanzee, dhole, eastern lowland gorilla, hispid hare, giant otter, giant panda, Goliath frog, green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, Grevy's zebra, hyacinth macaw, Humblot's heron, Iberian lynx, Japanese crane, Japanese night heron, Lear's macaw, Malayan tapir, markhor ,Malagasy pond heron, Persian leopard, proboscis monkey, purple-faced langur, pygmy hippopotamus, red-breasted goose, Rothschild's giraffe, snow leopard, South Andean deer, Sri Lankan elephant, takhi.

(near Critically Endangered) Toque macaque, Vietnamese pheasant, volcano rabbit, wild water buffalo, white-eared night heron, fishing cat, tasmanian devil.