Number of species under threat in Ecuador 2024, by type

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Erick Burgueño Salas
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Jan 14, 2025

As of 2024, roughly 75 percent of the total threatened living species in Ecuador on the IUCN Red List consisted of plants, with over two thousand species under threat. Amphibians ranked second with 292 threatened species. Ecuador features the highest number of threatened living species in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Number of threatened living species in Ecuador on the IUCN Red List in 2024, by taxonomic group

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Statistic: Number of threatened living species in Ecuador on the IUCN Red List in 2024, by taxonomic group

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October 2024

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Ecuador

Survey time period

2024

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* Figures presented for these groups should be interpreted as the number of species known to be threatened within those species that have been assessed to date, and not as the overall total number of threatened species for each group.

According to the source, threatened living species include species that are critically endangered (CR), endangered (EN) or vulnerable (VU).

The acronym IUCN stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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