Comparison of Red wist cwasses above
and NatureServe status bewow
A weast-concern species is a species dat has been categorized by de Internationaw Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evawuated as not being a focus of species conservation, uh-hah-hah-hah. They do not qwawify as dreatened, near dreatened, or (before 2001) conservation dependent.
Species cannot be assigned de "Least Concern" category unwess dey have had deir popuwation status evawuated. That is, adeqwate information is needed to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction based on its distribution or popuwation status.
Since 2001 de category has had de abbreviation "LC", fowwowing de IUCN 2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1). However, around 20% of weast concern taxa (3261 of 15636) in de IUCN database use de code "LR/wc", which indicates dey have not been re-evawuated since 2000. Before 2001 "weast concern" was a subcategory of de "Lower Risk" category and assigned de code "LR/wc" or wc.
Whiwe "weast concern" is not considered a red wisted category by de IUCN, de 2006 IUCN Red List stiww assigns de category to 15636 taxa. The number of animaw species wisted in dis category totaws 14033 (which incwudes severaw undescribed species such as a frog from de genus Phiwautus). There are awso 101 animaw subspecies wisted and 1500 pwant taxa (1410 species, 55 subspecies, and 35 varieties). No fungi or protista have de cwassification, dough onwy four species in dose kingdoms have been evawuated by de IUCN. Humans qwawify for dis category, because dey are highwy abundant, and in 2008 were formawwy assessed as such by de IUCN.
List of LC species
Notes and references
- "2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1)" (PDF). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived from de originaw (PDF) on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
- "Phiwautus sp. nov. 'Kawpatta'". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- Gwobaw Mammaw Assessment Team 2008. (2008). "Homo sapiens (human)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136584A4313662.en.