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The Platypus is not listed as Endangered, but it is “Near Threatened.” Its population is trending downwards due to loss of habitat from climate change and land clearing.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature recategorised its status as "near threatened" in 2016. [111] The species is protected by law, but the only state in which it is listed as endangered is South Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
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
Endangered species by reason(s) they are (or were) threatened — the cause(s) for species being endangered in their native habitats.; This is primarily a sub-category for IUCN Red List species by the external threat(s) stated in IUCN reports for each listed species (hyperlinked under 'References' &/or 'External links' on most wikipedia articles when species are on IUCN Red List).
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
Endemic species include a rare colony of white wallabies and the endangered Tasmanian devil, known for its piercing screech and powerful jaws. ... a sanctuary devoted to these threatened creatures ...
Appendix I contains highly threatened species; most of these are assessed by IUCN or TNC too however. Appendix II includes lesser-threatened and look-alike species; this status may be used for the former if no formal status evaluation by IUCN etc exists. Appendix III does not include globally threatened species; "CITES_A3" is not to be used ...