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Page 81 - Taxa believed likely to move into the Endangered category in the near future if the causal factors continue operating. Included are taxa of which most or all the populations are decreasing because of over-exploitation, extensive destruction of habitat or other environmental disturbance; taxa with populations that have been seriously depleted and whose ultimate security...
Page 81 - Taxa with small world populations that are not at present Endangered or Vulnerable, but are at risk. These taxa are usually localized within restricted geographical areas or habitats or are thinly scattered over a more extensive range. Indeterminate (I). Taxa known to be Extinct, Endangered, Vulnerable or Rare, but where there is not enough information to say which of the four categories is appropriate.
Page 14 - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Development Programme United Nations Economic Commission for Europe United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Educational...
Page 81 - ENDANGERED (E) Taxa in danger of extinction and whose survival is unlikely if the causal factors continue operating. Included are taxa whose numbers have been reduced to a critical level or whose habitats have been so drastically reduced that they are deemed to be in immediate danger of extinction. Also included are taxa that...
Page 81 - EXTINCT (Ex) Species not definitely located in the wild during the past 50 years (criterion as used by...
Page 81 - Endangered" category in the near future if the causal factors continue operating. Included are taxa of which most or all the populations are decreasing because of over-exploitation, extensive destruction of habitat or other environmental disturbance; taxa with populations that have been seriously depleted and whose ultimate security has not yet been assured; and taxa with populations that are still abundant but are under threat from severe adverse factors throughout their range. Rare (R) Taxa with...
Page 69 - Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
Page 81 - Commercially Threatened (CT) Taxa not currently threatened with extinction, but most or all of whose populations are threatened as a sustainable commercial resource, or will become so, unless their exploitation is regulated. This category applies only to taxa whose populations are assumed to be relatively large.
Page 25 - It suggested three ecological principles for ecological sustainability (see the nomenclature developed above), viz., "maintenance of essential ecological processes and life-support systems, the preservation of genetic diversity, and the sustainable utilization of species and resources
Page 81 - Rare' but where there is insufficient information to say which of these categories is appropriate. (K) Insufficiently known: taxa that are suspected, but not definitely known, to belong to any of the above categories because of lack of information. (T) Threatened: threatened is a general term to denote species which are 'Endangered', 'Vulnerable', 'Rare', 'Indeterminate