1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals

Compiled and Edited by Jonathan Baillie and Brian Groombridge

Contents

• Foreword by George B. Rabb
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Organization of Information
• Information Sources and Quality
• The New IUCN Categories and Criteria
• Analysis by Jonathan Baillie
• References
• Data Tables
  • Table 1. Status Category Summary for all Classes and Orders
  • Table 2. Status Category Summary by Major Taxonomic Group
  • Table 3. Threatened Species: Country Totals by Taxonomic Group
  • Table 4. Extinct, Threatened and Other Species: Country Totals by Status Category
• Guest Essays
  • Application of IUCN Categories on a Regional Scale by Ulf Gärdenfors
  • Applying the New IUCN Threatened Species Categories by Alison Stattersfield