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Common NameScientific NameConservation Status ↓Panthera pardus orientalisCritically EndangeredDiceros bicornisCritically EndangeredPongo pygmaeusCritically EndangeredGorilla gorilla diehliCritically EndangeredPeople also ask
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Learn more. Species are classified into one of nine Red List Categories: Extinct, Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened, Least Concern, Data Deficient and Not Evaluated.
Sep 30, 2020 · First published 30 September 2020. 0. The extinction risk to plants could be worse than previously thought, according to a landmark report. The State of the World's Plants and Fungi report from Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew estimated that 39.4% of plants are now threatened with extinction.
May 10, 2024 · Vulnerable (VU), a category containing those species that possess a very high risk of extinction as a result of rapid population declines of 30 to more than 50 percent over the previous 10 years (or three generations), a current population size of fewer than 1,000 individuals, or other factors.
Jun 10, 2019 · Many have heard of the famous examples of animal species that have become extinct in the last 250 years - the dodo, found on Mauritius until the 17th century, and the Yangtze River Dolphin, declared extinct as recently as 2006.
Nov 5, 2020 · Dozens of others, however, are gone. Focusing on U.S. and Canadian green heritage, Knapp and colleagues declared August 28 in Conservation Biology that 58 plants are extinct in the wild, with no ...
