IUCN Red List

native crayfish species will dwindle away to nothing. In an article on the Coosawattee Crayfish, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species states, “Cambarus coosawattae has been assessed as Near Threatened (1).” The article then goes on to state, “At

man with a gun pointing at your head laughing as you lay dying. The general point is that almost all animals are getting to the brink of extinction or are either being tagged as an endangered species by the IUCN Red List. The IUCN “International Union for Conservation of Nature” Red List is a list of millions of species and subspecies from all over the world that are currently losing its population due to poaching. This is a powerful tool that helps push the government to

threats to the species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) determines the conservation status of a species. The IUCN Global Species Programme work with the IUCN Species Survival Commission to assess the conservation status of species on a global scale and have been assessing them for the past 50 years. They promote the conservation of species that are threatened with extinction. The IUCN Red List of Threatened

understanding the risk of going extinct of each species according to the Red List, international organizations and state governments can develop appropriate conservation program corresponding to each of them. Different graph and statistics about the situation of endangered species in the world have been collected: Graph 1(IUCN Red List, 2007) Graph 1 above shows the percentage species in several groups which are list in the second category: either critically endangered, endangered

considered to be endangered. “One in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the world’s assessed plants on the… IUCN Red List are in jeopardy” (IUCN, 2016). According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, upwards of 16,000 species are threatened with extinction, including both plants and animals (IUCN, 2016). Before becoming endangered, a species will show warning signs, either by starting to lose biological diversity or by losing the habitats

Globally, most of the species (both flora and fauna) are under serious threat from direct and indirect human activities; while the direct activities such as deforestation leads to species habitat fragmentation and loss, on the other hand modifies climatic conditions coupled with gas emissions. The synergistic impact of these human driven activities questions the survivability of organisms in the morphed climatic environments. At one level fragmented habitats increase intra and inter species competitions

Nicaragua is a Central American country in tropical region. It is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Because of the unique location, Nicaragua is the home for various types of wild animals. Two species I will mention in this paper are Baird’s tapir and jaguarundi. They both live in rainforest ecosystem, which is the natural home for them. Just as all other species live in Nicaragua rainforest, Baird’s tapir and jaguarundi are facing habitat loss issue. Baird’s tapir is now endangered;

in danger of becoming extinct. This could happen because there are few of that animal left, its predators have grown in number, or the climate that it lives in is changing, or the places it lives in have been destroyed. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has worked out that endangered species are 40% of all organisms. This research paper aims to see why we should protect the endangered species, ways to protect and the causes of endangered species becoming more and more. Some

For example, the assessment for the Tope Shark Galeorhinus Galeus lists is as endangered ( South America ), vulnerable ( South Australia ), and near threatened ( New Zealand and Southern Africa ). This species has valuable flesh, but it has particularly low biological productivity, and comparing the situation across regions demonstrates how inadequately managed species can be depleted.” In this IUCN, we can see the increasing percentage of some threatened species not only

species which is classified of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) to become extinct or in red list species. We can find a lot of endangered species today; it is because their populations were destroyed by human being from many different aspects. For examples, illegal logging in the forest destroyed their habitat, farming, and housing of human. Grand Cayman blue iguana (Cyclura Lewis) is one of the species that people concern about it. The results of IUCN show that, the population of