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Conservation status groups species by how close each one is to extinction, using the category scale most conservation scientists rely on, running from least concern through near threatened, vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered, to extinct in the wild or extinct. Assessments come from bodies such as the IUCN Red List and are re-checked as a species population changes. A species with no current assessment recorded here is not shown as any of these categories.

Endangered
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Acacia mathuataensis

Endangered

African Bush Elephant

Endangered

African Elephant

Endangered

African Grey Parrot

Endangered

African Spurred Tortoise

Endangered

African Wild Dog

Endangered

Agathis kinabaluensis

Endangered

Agile Gibbon

Endangered

Alerce

Endangered

Alligator Snapping Turtle

Endangered

Aloe citrea

Endangered

Amazon River Dolphin

Endangered

Andean Mountain Cat

Endangered

Araucaria Araucana

Endangered

Araucaria goroensis

Endangered

Araucaria muelleri

Endangered

Armenian mouflon

Endangered

Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)

Endangered

Astyanax jordani

Endangered

Atlas Cedar

Endangered

Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri)

Endangered

Aye-aye

Endangered

Bactrian Camel

Endangered

Baja California pronghorn

Endangered

Basking Shark

Endangered

Bay Cat

Endangered

Bengal Tiger

Endangered

Betta channoides

Endangered

Bhutanitis ludlowi

Endangered

Blue Whale

Endangered

Bonobo

Endangered

Bornean White-bearded Gibbon

Endangered

Borneo elephant

Endangered

Borneo Kauri

Endangered

Brachypelma boehmei

Endangered

Butomus umbellatus

Endangered

Cascade red fox

Endangered

Caspian Seal

Endangered

Chamaecyparis formosensis

Endangered

Chelonoidis niger chathamensis

Endangered

Chimpanzee

Endangered

Chinchilla

Endangered

Coast Araucaria

Endangered

Coast Redwood

Endangered

Coffee Plant (Coffea arabica)

Endangered

Common beisa oryx

Endangered

Cork-bark Leaf-tailed Gecko

Endangered

Corpse Flower

Endangered

Crab-eating Macaque

Endangered

Cyprus mouflon

Endangered

Darwin's Frog

Endangered

Dawn Redwood

Endangered

Dhole

Endangered

Discus macclintocki

Endangered

Eastern Grey Gibbon

Endangered

Echinocactus horizonthalonius

Endangered

Emperor Penguin

Endangered

Erect-crested Penguin

Endangered

Euphorbia obesa

Endangered

European dark bee

Endangered

Flat-headed Cat

Endangered

Fraser Fir

Endangered

Freshwater Pearl Mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera)

Endangered

Frosted Flatwoods Salamander

Endangered

Galapagos Penguin

Endangered

Giant Freshwater Stingray (Urogymnus polylepis)

Endangered

Giant Gippsland Earthworm

Endangered

Giant Oceanic Manta Ray

Endangered

Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Endangered

Giant Pangolin

Endangered

Giant Sequoia

Endangered

Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

Endangered

Golden Lion Tamarin

Endangered

Golden Mantella

Endangered

Golden Poison Frog

Endangered

Goliath Frog

Endangered

Gomortega

Endangered

Granular Salamander

Endangered

Great knot

Endangered

Gundlach's hawk

Endangered

Gunning's golden mole

Endangered

Haliotis Discus

Endangered

Hine's emerald

Endangered

Hooded Seal

Endangered

Horned Marsupial Frog

Endangered

Humboldt's Araucaria

Endangered

Indian Pangolin

Endangered

Kagu

Endangered

Kea (Nestor notabilis)

Endangered

Komodo Dragon

Endangered

Koslov's Pika

Endangered

Lake Lerma Salamander

Endangered

Lar Gibbon

Endangered

Lion-tailed Macaque

Endangered

Little Brown Bat

Endangered

Longleaf Pine

Endangered

Malayan Tapir

Endangered

Marine Otter

Endangered

Mentawai Gibbon

Endangered

Metasequoia Glyptostroboides

Endangered

Monarch Butterfly

Endangered

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Endangered

Monterey Pine

Endangered

Mountain Gorilla

Endangered

Mountain Stream Salamander

Endangered

Nelson's spiny pocket mouse

Endangered

Nepenthes khasiana

Endangered

Nepenthes Rajah

Endangered

New Zealand rock wren

Endangered

Northern Bald Ibis

Endangered

Northern Buffed-cheeked Gibbon

Endangered

Northern pintail

Endangered

Northern Rockhopper Penguin

Endangered

Okapi

Endangered

Oldham's leaf turtle

Endangered

Parodia leninghausii

Endangered

Pileated Gibbon

Endangered

Proboscis Monkey

Endangered

Przewalski's Horse

Endangered

Puerto Hondo Stream Salamander

Endangered

Puya Raimondii

Endangered

Pygmy Hippopotamus

Endangered

Queen Sago

Endangered

Red Panda

Endangered

Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander

Endangered

Rhinoceros Iguana

Endangered

Ring-tailed Lemur

Endangered

Rock Araucaria

Endangered

Rule's Araucaria

Endangered

Sagalla Caecilian

Endangered

San Lorenzo Harlequin Frog (Atelopus nahumae)

Endangered

Sarawak Kauri

Endangered

Sea Otter

Endangered

Secretarybird

Endangered

Sequoia Sempervirens

Endangered

Serbian Spruce

Endangered

Seychelles Frog

Endangered

Shortfin Mako Shark

Endangered

Siamang

Endangered

Silversword

Endangered

Silvery Gibbon

Endangered

Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon

Endangered

Southern Grey Gibbon

Endangered

Southern River Otter

Endangered

Spider Monkey

Endangered

Taiwan angelshark

Endangered

Tanganyika lates

Endangered

Tasmanian Devil

Endangered

Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish

Endangered

Teleocichla cinderella

Endangered

Tiger

Endangered

Titan Arum

Endangered

Titicaca Water Frog

Endangered

Triops cancriformis

Endangered

Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab

Endangered

Tucuxi

Endangered

Uebelmannia pectinifera

Endangered

Vanilla Orchid (Vanilla planifolia)

Endangered

Vietnamese Golden Cypress

Endangered

Western Grey Gibbon

Endangered

Western Hoolock Gibbon

Endangered

Whale Shark

Endangered

Whitebark Pine

Endangered

White-bellied Pangolin

Endangered

Whooping Crane

Endangered

Wild Bactrian Camel

Endangered

Wild horse

Endangered

Wood Turtle

Endangered

Yellow-cheeked Gibbon

Endangered

Yellow-eyed Penguin

Endangered

Yellow-headed Day Gecko

Endangered

Yellow-peppered Salamander

Endangered

Zebra Shark

Endangered
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceContains: Polar BearView the Source
Lion (Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology InstituteContains: African LionView the Source
Beaver (Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, National Park Service)
National Park ServiceContains: BeaverView the Source
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