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THE IUCN RED LIST
source: www.iucn.org/themes/
ssc/redlists/rlindex.htm
website:
www.redlist.org
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The IUCN Red List* is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plants and animals
It uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies. These criteria are relevant to all species and all regions of the world:
- there are 9 categories of threat in the IUCN Red List system: Extinct, Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened, Least Concern, Data Deficient, and Not Evaluated;
- a species is listed as threatened if it falls in the Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable categories.
To get all the IUCN stats, please visit the Red List website. Among many other interesting links, you will find:
Table 1: Numbers of threatened species by major groups of organisms (1996–2004) [ www.redlist.org/info/tables/table1.html]
Table 2: Changes in numbers of species in the threatened categories (CR, EN, VU) from 1996 to 2004 [ www.redlist.org/info/tables/table2.html]
*The 2000 World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, launched in September 2000, was a landmark for IUCN and the Species Survival Commission. This was the first time that animals and plants were combined in a single list and the first time that a Red List was produced on CD-ROM.
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