Extinction Risk

biodiversity-conservation

Functionally extinct animals are species that no longer play a meaningful role in their ecosystem or are too rare to sustain a viable population, even when some individuals rema...

Guides And Explainers

Based on current assessments from the IUCN Red List and other scientific evaluations, it is unlikely that many animals will become definitively extinct by 2025. However, numerou...

conservation biology

An edge-of-extinction survivor is a species or population that has persisted through an extreme and immediate risk of disappearance, often having passed through a bottleneck so...

biodiversity-conservation

Animals close to extinction are those at elevated risk of disappearing from the wild or in captivity. Scientists and conservation bodies use categories such as Critically Endang...

Environment

Turtles in extinction are species that have vanished from the wild or now survive only in captivity, reflecting the end of breeding populations and functional extinction in thei...