Creature Library

Conservation status

At Risk animals

Every animal here has been assessed by the IUCN and found to be at risk, from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered. The Red List is the world’s most widely used measure of extinction risk. A species joins it only after scientists review its population, its range and the pressures on it. Some here are declining slowly; others have a few hundred adults left.

All 42 At Risk animals in the library, from the addax to the zebra shark. Most of them live in Asia and Africa.

What they eat
  • Herbivores 11
  • Omnivores 9
  • Carnivores 19
  • Insectivores 3

IUCN Red List

  1. LC Least Concern
  2. NT Near Threatened (this page)
  3. VU Vulnerable (this page)
  4. EN Endangered (this page)
  5. CR Critically Endangered (this page)
  6. EW Extinct in the Wild
  7. EX Extinct

At Risk covers the four highlighted steps, from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered.

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