endangered list
At-risk species roster
A list of species at risk of extinction, maintained by governments or conservation organizations.
Animals or plants on the endangered list receive legal protections and recovery efforts.
The term extends figuratively to anything threatened with disappearance: Small bookstores are on the endangered list.
Also called the endangered species list.
- threatenedExpressed intent to harm
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- on the brinkAt the threshold
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
going extinct · conservation · habitat · habitat loss · protection · vulnerable · rare · population decline · biodiversity · poaching · survival · critical · vanishing · sanctuary · nature preserve · preserve · ecosystem · captive breeding
- wildlife conservationhabitat protection, game warden, species protection, wildlife officer, wildlife refuges
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate
- wildlife regulationshunting licenses, fishing season, bag limits, closed season, hunting zone
endangered, list, danger, dangerous, dangerously, endanger, endangers, endangering, endangerment