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The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-135) was an expansion of the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 which authorized the United States Secretary of the Interior to develop a comprehensive list of species or subspecies of animals threatened with worldwide extinction. It also prohibited the importation from any ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. [3] Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
Glyptothorax alaknandi [3] is a species of catfish that was first described by Tilak, 1969. Glyptothorax alaknandi is a species in genus Glyptothorax, family Sisoridae and order Siluriformes. [4] [5] IUCN categorise the species as least concern globally. [1] No subspecies are listed in Catalogue of Life. [4]
It was first described in 1969 by Édouard-Raoul Brygoo and Charles Antoine Domergue, and it was ranked by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "least concern". B. thieli is thought to be found over an area of 43,865 km 2 (16,936 sq mi) at 875–1,200 m (2,871–3,937 ft) above sea level.
W. R. Taylor, 1969 The Scioto madtom ( Noturus trautmani ) was a species of fish in the family Ictaluridae . It is listed as extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature , which notes that it has likely been entirely or functionally extinct since 1957 given the lack of records since that year.
Once on the verge of extinction, the recovery of the sea otter is considered one of the greatest successes in marine conservation.. The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal living near the shores of the North Pacific, from northern Japan, the Kuril Islands and Kamchatka east across the Aleutian Islands and along the North American coast to Mexico.
The IUCN classifies X. signum as a vulnerable species due to its extremely limited range. Small-scale agriculture exists throughout this range, but the major threat is the development of palm oil plantations. [1] X. signum is a livebearer. The female gives birth to 20–40 fry every 4–5 weeks. [5]
These conservation status categories are used in Wikipedia articles.. For threatened species and species believed to have become extinct after 1500, the categories are based on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) Red List 1994 or 2001 categories.