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unusual facts about conservation status



Cupressus

Cupressus chengiana (Cheng's cypress) - Conservation status: Vulnerable

Euphyes arpa

NatureServe ranks the species with a rounded global conservation status of G3: Vulnerable.

Pinus palustris

The Red-cockaded Woodpecker is dependent on Longleaf Pine forests, and is now endangered as a result of this decline.


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Angelica palustris

Owing to its Europe-wide conservation status, this plant has been included in the Bern Convention, and subsequently listed in Annex II of the EU Flora–Fauna DirectiveNatura 2000.

Banksia cuneata

Ironically, given its conservation status, Kingsley Dixon of Kings Park and Botanic Garden suggested that it may have weed potential: the species was trialled as a cut flower crop on land north of Moore River, and seedlings were noted afterwards.

Duck-billed Buntingi

Instead most scientists believe the human introduction of the predatory fishes including snakehead, Channa striata, and tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, most likely lead to their present conservation status.

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.

Horn shark

At present, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) does not have sufficient information to assess the overall conservation status of this species; its status in United States waters is likely Least Concern.

Romnalda

Cooper Creek (P.I.Forster+ PIF4402) Qld Herbarium – only found in a few isolated locations around Cooper Creek, Wet Tropics region, north-eastern Queensland; and has obtained the Queensland government's official conservation status listing of "vulnerable" species.