Interpreting extinction-risk assessments
- Red List categories express extinction risk
- Threatened comprises Vulnerable, Endangered and Critically Endangered
- Extinct in the Wild differs from Extinct
- Near Threatened differs from Least Concern
- Data Deficient and Not Evaluated do not mean safe
- Meeting one qualifying criterion can determine a threat category
- Global and regional extinction-risk categories can differ
- Extinction risk alone does not set conservation priorities