International standards and resources
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global leader in research on biodiversity and biodiversity status. It runs various species programs and oversees the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Australian conventions and resources
In Australia, the Australian Government, and state and territory governments maintain lists of threatened species and ecological communities under legislation. State and territory lists do not necessarily conform to the national list, either in the species listed or the category they are listed under. See the table below for an overview of these lists.
See Names of organisms for information on how to write species names.
Present the main categories of the IUCN Red List in lower case:
least concern near threatened vulnerable endangered critically endangered extinct in the wild extinct
Also use lower case for threatened species categories listed in the table below:
vulnerable endangered critically endangered extinct
For threatened ecological communities, use the capitalisation that appears in the relevant lists:
Alpine Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens Grassy Eucalypt Woodland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain
Lists of threatened species and ecological communities under legislation
