Data source: The World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. From its small beginning, The IUCN Red List has grown in size and complexity and now plays an increasingly prominent role in guiding conservation activities of governments, NGOs and scientific institutions. The introduction in 1994 of a scientifically rigorous approach to determine risks of extinction that is applicable to all species, has become a world standard.
Note: For reptiles, fishes, molluscs, other invertebrates, plants, fungi & protists: there are still many species that have not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List and therefore their status is not known (i.e., these groups have not yet been completely assessed). Therefore the figures presented below for these groups should be interpreted as the number of species known to be threatened within those species that have been assessed to date, and not as the overall total number of threatened species for each group.
We advise users to abstain from making comparisons through time using this data, given that there could be changes to the methodology for the country reports.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2021)
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bi_amphibians
Threatened Species: Amphibians (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_birds
Threatened Species: Birds (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_chromists
Threatened Species: Chromists (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_fishes
Threatened Species: Fishes (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_fungi
Threatened Species: Fungi (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_mammals
Threatened Species: Mammals (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_molluscs
Threatened Species: Molluscs (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_othinverts
Threatened Species: Other Inverts (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_plants
Threatened Species: Plants (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_reptiles
Threatened Species: Reptiles (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)
bi_total
Threatened Species: Total (Total number of species reported as endangered per country)