We use the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to determine the conservation status of a species. IUCN is the International Union for the Conservation of Species and the IUCN has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation.
For example, they list over 35,000 species by taxonomic group in their database. From crustaceans to arthropods, birds and frogs to mammals and plants, the IUCN evaluates every species they possibly can to help define its conservation need.
Pop on over to their website www.redlist.org type in the name of an animal and you will be taken to its designation along with maps, natural history and notes on the species conservation need.
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