Conservation status - Wikipedia When discussing the IUCN Red List, the official term "threatened" is a grouping of three categories: critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable Extinct (EX) – There are no known living individuals Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a naturalized population outside its historic range
Vulnerable species - Wikipedia A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve
Endangered species (IUCN status) - Wikipedia "Endangered" (EN) species lie between "Vulnerable" (VU) and "Critically Endangered" (CR) species A species must adhere to certain criteria in order to be placed in any of the afore-mentioned conservation status categories, according to the assessment
Threatened species - Wikipedia The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree to which they are threatened: [2]: 8–11 Vulnerable species Endangered species Critically endangered species Less-than-threatened categories are near threatened, least
Endangered species - Wikipedia Golden lion tamarin, an endemic and one of the endangered species saved from extinction in Brazil A visual representation of the declining percentages of endangered plant and animal species in Brazil from 2014 to 2022 The sidebar graph highlights the contrast between plant and animal conservation efforts The California condor is a critically endangered species Note the wing tags used for
IUCN Red List - Wikipedia The percentage of species in several groups which are documented as extinct, critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable on the 2023 IUCN Red List The data for some groups are insufficient, so the plotted percentages can be much lower than the actual rates of vulnerability The idea for a Red Data Book was suggested by Peter Scott in 1963 [7]
Lower risk - Wikipedia Lower risk was a classification formerly used by the IUCN Red List, superseded by the Least Concern classification [1] Species are classified into one of nine Red List Categories: extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern, data deficient, and not evaluated [2] The IUCN defined an animal with the conservation status of lower
List of IUCN Red List vulnerable plants - Wikipedia Endangered and critically endangered species also meet the quantitative criteria of vulnerable species, and are listed separately See: List of endangered plants, List of critically endangered plants Vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered species are collectively referred to as threatened species by the IUCN