Number of Globally Threatened Animals by Terrestrial Ecoregion

Nov 14, 2011 (Last modified Jan 13, 2016)
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Number of globally threatened animals, by terrestrial ecoregion.

We compiled a vertebrate species list for each ecoregion from WWF’s WildFinder database (WWF 2006). This list was then compared against the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2008) to determine the number of species per ecoregion that are threatened. Threatened species are those listed by IUCN Red List as Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered (www.redlist.org).

These data were derived by The Nature Conservancy, and were displayed in a map published in The Atlas of Global Conservation (Hoekstra et al., University of California Press, 2010). More information at http://nature.org/atlas.

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World Wildlife Fund (WWF). 2006. WildFinder: Database of species distributions, ver. Jan-06. Available at www.gis.wwf.org/WildFinder.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species summary statistics. Available at www.redlist.org.
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Hoekstra, J. M., J. L. Molnar, M. Jennings, C. Revenga, M. D. Spalding, T. M. Boucher, J. C. Robertson, T. J. Heibel, with K. Ellison. 2010. The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference. Ed. J. L. Molnar. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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