conservation status
Species survival outlook
Conservation status is a classification indicating how close a species is to extinction.
Organizations like the IUCN assign categories ranging from "least concern" through "endangered" to "extinct": The giant panda's conservation status improved from endangered to vulnerable.
The term appears frequently in wildlife management and environmental policy discussions.
At risk of extinction
- threatenedExpressed intent to harm
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- critically endangeredAt extinction's edge
- CITESWildlife trade agreement
extinction risk · listing · delisting · reclassification · monitoring
Protected sacred space
- wildlife refugeProtected area for animals
- national parkProtected land for conservation
- captive breedingReproducing animals under human care
- reintroductionAct of bringing back
habitat restoration · wildlife corridor · breeding program · translocation · protected habitat · gene bank · seed bank · rewilding
Elimination of living spaces
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- overexploitationExcessive resource depletion
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
pollution · invasive species · population decline · fragmentation · bycatch · overhunting · disease · roadkill
Vanished flightless bird
- passenger pigeonExtinct migratory North American dove
- Tasmanian tigerExtinct striped marsupial carnivore
- woolly mammothExtinct hairy elephant species
- great aukExtinct flightless North Atlantic seabird
Steller's sea cow · quagga · moa · thylacine · megafauna · de-extinction · functionally extinct · rediscovery
endangered
At risk of extinction
- threatenedExpressed intent to harm
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- critically endangeredAt extinction's edge
CITES · extinction risk · listing · delisting · reclassification · monitoring
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
- wildlife refugeProtected area for animals
- national parkProtected land for conservation
- captive breedingReproducing animals under human care
reintroduction · habitat restoration · wildlife corridor · breeding program · translocation · protected habitat · gene bank · seed bank · rewilding · anti-poaching
habitat loss
Elimination of living spaces
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- overexploitationExcessive resource depletion
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
deforestation · pollution · invasive species · population decline · fragmentation · bycatch · overhunting · disease · roadkill · pesticides
dodo
Vanished flightless bird
- passenger pigeonExtinct migratory North American dove
- Tasmanian tigerExtinct striped marsupial carnivore
- woolly mammothExtinct hairy elephant species
great auk · Steller's sea cow · quagga · moa · thylacine · megafauna · de-extinction · functionally extinct · rediscovery · extinction event
- conservationwildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary, wildlife protection
- biodiversityspecies diversity, endemism, genetic diversity, biodiversity hotspots, biota
- wildlife conservationhabitat protection, game warden, species protection, wildlife officer, wildlife refuges
- wildlife populationsfish stocks, native population, population density, population growth, population decline
- Megalopterafishflies, larvae, larval stage, mandibles, gills
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate
conservation statusextinct
No longer existing
abundant · common · widespread · population boom · invasive species
conservation statusextinction
Complete vanishing of a species
extinct · extirpation · population collapse · species loss · abundance
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