Endangered species
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An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based on the sample of species that have been evaluated through 2006.
See also
- Biodiversity
- CITES
- Conservation status
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- EDGE Species
- Endangered Species Act
- Endangered Species Coalition (ESC)
- Ex-situ conservation
- Extinction
- Holocene extinction
- Habitat fragmentation
- In-situ conservation
- IUCN Red List
- The Last Paradises: On the Track of Rare Animals (1967 film)
- List of endangered animal species
- List of endangered species in North America
- List of National Wildlife Refuges established for endangered species
- Overexploitation
- NatureServe conservation status
- Rare species
- Red Data Book of the Russian Federation
- Red and Blue-listed
- Threatened species
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species
- World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival (WCBESCAS)
- World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- World Wide Fund for Nature
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