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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
Plants classified by conservation status on the IUCN Red List system See also classifications by NatureServe conservation status system. Subcategories.
1781 painting by Maruyama Okyo Adult female head and upper neck Male profile. The green peafowl is a large bird in terms of overall size. The male is 1.8–3 m (5 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) in total length, including its train, which measures 1.4–1.6 m (4 ft 7 in – 5 ft 3 in); the adult female is around half the total length of the breeding male at 1–1.1 m (3 ft 3 in – 3 ft 7 in) in length.
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The Indian peafowl is known to live for up to 23 years in captivity. However, it is estimated to live for only about 15 years in the wild. [ 63 ] Large predators such as tiger , leopard , hyena , dhole , and golden jackal , can ambush an adult Indian peafowl.
The Congo peafowl is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List. As of 2013, the wild population was estimated at between 2,500 and 9,000 adult individuals. [1] Given its use of regenerating forest in Salonga National Park, secondary forests might be an important habitat to include in a conservation strategy. [3]
A Kossuth County game pheasant farm is the ninth Iowa poultry operation to report bird flu infections this fall Bird flu detected on north central Iowa farm with game pheasant, chickens and ...
On the IUCN Red List, endangered is the second-most severe conservation status for wild populations in the IUCN's schema after critically endangered. In 2012, the IUCN Red List featured 3,079 animal and 2,655 plant species as endangered worldwide. [1] The figures for 1998 were 1,102 and 1,197 respectively. [1]