Presentation on International system for conservation status assesment, BY Abdul waris(BS Biotechnology 6th semester)

1.  By Abdul Waris
 Semester:6th
 Department of biotechnology,University of Malakand,pakistan
 Title: International system for conservation status assesment

2. International system:
for conservation status assessment.
 IUCN red list of threatened species
 The best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system.

3. IUCN:
 IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature.
 The most authentic conservation status system
 Founded on 5th October 1948.
 In France, currently based in Switzerland
 11k scientist working voluntarily
 1k working staff

4. IUCN red list of threatened species:
 Also called IUCN red list or red data list
 The best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system.
 Last released was on 9th July 2012
 Classified species into 9 categories on the basis of
 Rate of decline
 Population size
 Area of geographic distribution
 And degree of population fragmentation

5. IUCN red list of threatened species:
 Also include species that have been extinct since 500AD.

6. Categories
 Extinct (EX):No known individuals remaining
 Extinct in the wild (EW):Known only to survive in captivity.

7. categories
 Critically endangered (CR): Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
 criteria:
 when a specie covering area is only 100 km square.
 Mature specie less then 50
 In 2012, 2466 animals spps and 2104 plant spps are citically endangered
 Endangered (EN): High risk of extinction in the wild.
 Criteria:
 70 percent reduction occure in population in last 10 years
 When a specie cover only 500km square area.
 Mature members less then 280

8. categories
 Vulnerable (VU): High risk of endangerment in the wild
 Criteria:
 When 20 percent reduction occur in population in past 10 years
 When a specie cover only or less then 2000 km square.
 According to IUCN in 2012,7428 animals spp and 4914 plant spps are vulnerable.

9. categories
 Near threatened (NT): Likely to become endangered in the near future.
 Least concern (LC):Lowest risk; does not qualify for a higher risk category.
 Data deficient (DD):Not enough data to make an assessment of its risk of
extinction
 Not evaluated (NE):Has not yet been evaluated against the criteria.

10. Aims:
 To help the international community to try to reduce species extinction
 To draw attention to the importance of threatened biodiversity
 To influence national and international policy and decision-making,
 and to provide information to guide actions to conserve biological diversity.

11. Thank you for attention