Threatened species

This quantitative metric is one method of evaluating the degree of endangerment without direct reference to human activity.

[3] These could be summarised as:[4] The EPBC Act also recognises and protects threatened ecosystems such as plant communities, and Ramsar Convention wetlands used by migratory birds.

It provides information on what the species looks like, its population and distribution, habitat, movements, feeding, reproduction and taxonomic comments.

Pests and weeds, climate change and habitat loss are some of the key threatening processes faced by native plants and animals listed by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment of New South Wales.

The Bay checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis) is an example of a threatened subspecies protected under the Endangered Species Act.

For example, the trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is threatened in the state of Minnesota, while large populations still remain in Canada and Alaska.

The three categories of the threatened species on IUCN Red List .
Red-List-Categories of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation of Germany. [ 10 ]
"Threatened" in relation to "endangered" under the ESA .