Endangered Species: IUCN Red List category (species of organisms facing a very high risk of extinction)

This could happen because there are few of that animal left, its predators have grown in number, or the climate that it lives in is changing, or the places it lives in have been destroyed. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has worked out that endangered species are 40% of all organisms.

Conservation status by IUCN Red List category
Extinct
Extinct (EX) Extinct in the Wild (EW)	(list) (list)
Threatened
Critically Endangered (CR) Endangered (EN) Vulnerable (VU)	(list) (list) (list)
Lower Risk
Near Threatened (NT) Conservation Dependent (CD) Least Concern (LC)	(list) (list)
Other categories
Data Deficient (DD) Not Evaluated (NE)	(list)
Related topics International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) IUCN Red List NatureServe status Lists of organisms by population
Comparison of Red list classes above and NatureServe status below
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Many countries have laws to protect these plants and animals. These laws, if obeyed, can save species by stopping hunting, land development or making parks and reserves. Poaching and other illegal activities, however, can still destroy them.

Only a few plants and animals at risk of extinction, mostly vertebrates, are put on the lists and get legal protection. Many more species become extinct, or will become extinct, without people knowing about it.

This is a list of some mammals that are endangered. They include:

• Asiatic linsang
• Asiatic lion
• Black-footed ferret
• Black rhinoceros
• Blue whale
• Dhole
• Ethopian wolf
• Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
• Indonesian mountain weasel
• Snow leopard
• Tiger
• White rhinoceros (currently considered as near endangered)

Endangered birds include:

• Albatross
• Crowned solitary eagle
• Grey parrot

• CITES
• IUCN Red List

• Endangered or Not, but at Least No Longer Waiting March 6, 2013 New York Times