Red List explorer
Every animal on this site with its Red List status β and the 296 of 1,698 the IUCN has never assessed. An animal without an assessment isn't in the clear; nobody has checked yet.
Both bars show shares of their own total, so the shapes compare even though one counts 98,259 animals and the other 1698. Of the worldβs assessed animals, 20% are vulnerable, endangered or critical; of the assessed animals here, 23%.
Everyone already knows about the tiger
The famous endangered animals are famous partly because they are endangered. These six are in the same trouble or worse, and almost nobody reads about them. The number under each is how many people look it up on Wikipedia in a month β for comparison, the axolotl gets 134,426.
βLooked upβ is how often people read about the animal on Wikipedia each month. The arrow shows which way the IUCN says the population is heading at its last assessment.
The 296 nobody has assessed yet
17% of the animals hereMost are simply waiting their turn; a few may be on the Red List under a name we couldnβt match to ours. Either way, no news isnβt good news.
species of mammal
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