how many animals are endangered in south america?
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Each year, the IUCN publishes the IUCN Red List identifying threatened, vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered species worldwide. The May 2013 Red List includes over 2,600 animals in South America with 118 of these located in Peru.
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The arctic fox, the European mink, Mediterranean monk seal, the North Atlantic right whale and the polar bear are currently among the most endangered mammals in Europe. Pollinators are also declining. One out of 10 European bee and butterfly species is threatened with extinction.
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"Brazil and South Africa are busy assessing all of their species," Hilton-Taylor reports, "so those countries will suddenly have much higher numbers of threatened plants than all others because of the size of their respective floras." Brazil is home to about 30,000 species and South African almost 20,000, so the Red ...
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['Andean Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi).', 'Bolivian Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma boliviensis). ... ', 'Boto (Amazon River Dolphin) (Inia geoffrensis).', 'Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus).', 'Bushy-tailed Opossum (Glironia venusta).', "Carriker's Round-eared Bat (Tonatia carrikeri)."]
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South America ranks number 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean among subregions ranked by Population. The population density in South America is 25 per Km2 (64 people per mi2). 85.5 % of the population is urban (368,408,682 people in 2019).
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Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List (2009), the Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is considered to be one of the most endangered large mammals in the world with only two populations existing in the wild, for a total number of less than 60 animals.
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As of 2016, the number of critically endangered species in the UK reached 165. With the significant drop in the abundance of its wildlife, the UK is now considered “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”.
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Endangered animals are animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. This means that there will be no more of these animals alive on earth. An animal is considered endangered or "threatened" when there are very few of them alive. There are also some animals that only exist in captivity (for example in a zoo).
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There are over 1,300 endangered or threatened species in the United States today. Endangered species are those plants and animals that have become so rare they are in danger of becoming extinct.
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But compared to the number of species which exist in the world, even taking the lowest estimates of that number, such known cases are very few. According to IUCN data, for example, only one animal has been definitely identified as having gone extinct since 2000.
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Macaw. ... There are 17 different species of macaw found in the rainforests of South America. Many of the different macaw species are today considered to be endangered animals. The macaw is an omnivorous animal and feeds on nuts and fruit in the trees along with insects, eggs and small mammals and reptiles.
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As well as birds, Colombia also hosts over 450 mammal species. Of these 450 species, approximately 22% are listed as either endangered or critically endangered. Interestingly, Colombia has the largest number of terrestrial mammals (those that live predominantly or entirely on land) in the world.
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At the moment it is thought there are 230,000 to 250,000 marine species around the world including 7,500 animals in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic.
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Currently, the only cobra species the IUCN lists as endangered is the Fiji snake Ogmodon vitianus, but the numbers of the other 20 species have been reduced by the loss of habitat in some parts of their range.
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As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 643 endangered fish species. 4.2% of all evaluated fish species are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists ten fish subspecies as endangered.
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IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It uses a set of quantitative criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species.
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The May 2013 Red List includes over 2,600 animals in South America with 118 of these located in Peru. Many of these threatened animals live in the Amazon Rainforest including the Giant Otter, South American Tapir, and Red Faced Uakari Monkey.