The conservation status of a species is an indicator of how likely it is to remain alive at present or in the near future.
The IUCN Red List is set upon precise criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies. These criteria are relevant to all species and all regions of the world. The aim is to convey the urgency of conservation issues to the public and policy makers, as well as help the international community to try to reduce species extinction.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups. set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmentation.