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Conservation status
the risk of extinction
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| Extinction |
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Extinct
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| Threatened |
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Critically Endangered
Endangered
Vulnerable
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| Lower risk |
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Near Threatened
Conservation Dependent
Least Concern
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| See also |
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World Conservation Union
IUCN Red List
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The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on.
The best-known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system is the IUCN Red List, but other more specialised lists and systems exist, such as The Nature Conservancy's conservation status ranking system, and CITES.
In Australia, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) there is list of threatened species, ecological communities and threatening processes. The categories resemble the those of the 1994 IUCN Red List Categories & Criteria (version 2.3). Prior to the EPBC Act, a simpler classification system was used by the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992.
[edit] See also
- Biodiversity Action Plan
- List of extinct animals
- Endangered species
- Lazarus taxon
- Conservation status (TNC)