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7 unusual facts about IUCN Red List


Bithynia siamensis

Bithynia siamensis and Bithynia funiculata (synonym: Bithynia goniomphala) were recognized as separate species in the 2012 IUCN Red List.

IUCN category

IUCN Red List categories, evaluating the imperilment of threatened species (least concern through to extinct)

Jardinella

There is 12 species of Jardinella listed in the 2011 IUCN Red List.

Sarracenia oreophila

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Sphagnum palustre

Sphagnum palustre is not on the IUCN red list of threatened species and therefore isn’t considered to be threatened or endangered.

Stanleya neritinoides

This species was listed as Endangered in the 2006 IUCN Red List.

Tympanobasis

As too little is known of them, they have not been evaluated by their scarcity and thus are not included in the IUCN Red List.


Attapeu Province

The listed globally threatened wild life species are 14 (as per the World Conservation Union (IUCN Red List and 23 specuies according to the CITES.

Baljurashi

The Arabian Leopard is classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List and listed in CITES Appendix 1.

Baulk Head to Mullion

The SSSI contains several plant species listed in the Red Data Book of rare and endangered plant species, such as Hairy Greenweed, the moss Pottia starkenna, part of the Pottiaceae family, Fringed Rupturewort (Herniaria ciliolata) and the only recently recorded instances of wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum).

Cantabrian brown bear

On an international level, it is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as of Least Concern due to the existence of relatively healthy populations of Brown bears elsewhere.

Coverack to Porthoustock

The coastline contains 4 Red Data Book plant species, which includes Cornish heath (Erica vagans), dwarf rush (Juncus capitatus) and twin-headed clover (Trifolium bocconei) along with the nationally scarce autumn squill (Scilla autumnalis).

Furcifer cephalolepis

The International Union for Conservation of Nature ranked the species as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as there are no signs that this species is in decline.

Georgina Mace

In 2000, Professor Mace became Science Director of the Institute of Zoology in London, during this time, Professor Mace was instrumental in developing the criteria for listing species in the IUCN Red List, the most comprehensive inventory on the conservation status of the world's species species conservation contributing to the maintenance of global biodiversity and managed by IUCN.

Lake Qaraoun

Ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca), Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus), Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga), Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) and Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) are some of the birds which are of conservation concern, according to the 2008 IUCN Red List.

Perranporth

They are also a valuable resource for wildlife with many rare plants and insects including Cornwall's largest colony of the Silver-studded Blue a Red Data Book species.

Redspotted catshark

Redspotted catsharks are not listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, the U.S. Federal List, or the CITES list.

Senegal chameleon

Due to its wide range and unknown population, the Senegal chameleon is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List.

Shortnose sawshark

Because of stable commercial catch rates, reduced Total Allowable Catch, protection in Victorian waters, and a high rate of biological productivity, the shortnose sawshark is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List.

Striped Nothobranch

The IUCN Red List lists Astatotilapia stappersii as its junior synonym, but this is a lapsus; apart from both being East African Acanthopterygii, the nothobranch ist neither similar nor closely related to the cichlid A. stappersii, which the IUCN in fact features in a separate entry under its old name Haplochromis stappersii.


see also

Bear conservation

Although the inclusion of the brown bear as of Least Concern on the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species refers to their global population, the fact is that local populations are increasingly becoming scarcer.

Midongy du sud National Park

One can find there also 14 endagered plants that are listed in the IUCN red list for endangered species and the orchids Aeranthes caudata and Bulbophyllum vestitum (CITES (Annexe II)).