International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission

Andrew E. Derocher

IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. Working Meeting Oslo, Norway)

Proceedings of the Twelfth Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 3-7 February 1997, Oslo, Norway

Polar Bears

Martin Jenkins

S. N. Stuart

Simon N. Stuart

Richard J. Adams

Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use

Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and Its Islands

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Iucn Species Survival Commission

The threatened species categories used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place for almost 30 years. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria provide an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction, so as to focus attention on conservation measures designed to protect them. This latest version of the classification system was adopted by the IUCN Council in February 2001 and reflects comments from the IUCN and SSC memberships and the final meeting of the Criteria Review Working Group.

IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Ulf Gärdenfors

A. J. Stattersfield

The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system.

1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals

David Stone

Wild Cats

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission

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