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Conservation status
Risk of extinction
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Critically Endangered
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Vulnerable
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World Conservation Union
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Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct in the wild in the immediate future.

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[edit] IUCN Category

The Critically Endangered status, in relation to other IUCN Red List categories

The World Conservation Union (IUCN), widely considered to be the most objective and authoritative system for classifying species in terms of the risk of extinction,[1] lists 3246 species (1665 animals, 1575 plants, 6 fungi, lichens and algae)[2] of the world as being critically endangered in their 2008 Red List.

Critically endangered is the highest risk category assigned by the IUCN for wild species. Critically endangered means that a species numbers have decreased, or will decrease, by 80% within three generations.[3]

As the IUCN does not consider a species extinct until extensive, targeted surveys have been conducted, species which are possibly extinct are still listed as "Critically Endangered". A new category for "Possibly Extinct" has been suggested by BirdLife International to categorize these taxa.

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[edit] Cetacea

[edit] Insectivores

Order Soricomorpha
Order Erinaceomorpha
Order Afrosoricida

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[edit] Fungi

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Birds on the IUCN Red List". BirdLife International. http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/red_list.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. 
  2. ^ "2008 Red List summary statistics". IUCN Red List. http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/2008rl_stats_tables_all.xls. Retrieved on 2008-10-28. 
  3. ^ "Apes extinct in a generation". BBS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4202734.stm. Retrieved on 2005-09-01. 
  4. ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Painted Hunting Dog: Lycaon pictus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
  5. ^ A. Aguilar and L. Lowry. 2008. Monachus monachus
  6. ^ IUCN Red List. 2008
  7. ^ Cat Specialist Group. 1996. Panthera pardus ssp. panthera
  8. ^ David, N. & Gosselin, M. 2002. The grammatical gender of avian genera. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 122: 257-282
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