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List of endangered and protected species of China

The endangered species of China may include any wildlife species designated for protection by the national government of China or listed as endangered by international organizations such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Endangered & protected species of China
as designated by the government of China, IUCN and CITES

As one of the world's most biodiverse countries and its second most populous, China is home to a significant number of wildlife species vulnerable to or in danger of local extinction due to the impact of human activity.[2][3] Under the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Wildlife, the national and local governments are required to designate rare or threatened species for special protection under the law. The type of legal protection that a particular species in China enjoys may depend on the locality of administration. For example, the Beijing Municipal Government designates the wild boar and masked palm civet, which are found in the wilderness around the municipality, as local Class I protected species even though none are among the Class I or II protected species designated by the national government.[4]

China is a signatory country to the CITES and the national government's protected species list generally follows the designation of endangered species by CITES, but also includes certain species that are rare in the country but quite common in other parts of the world so as not to be considered globally threatened (such as moose and beaver) or are vulnerable to economic exploitation thus require legal protection (such as sable and otter). The Chinese endangered species classifications are updated relatively infrequently, and a number of species deemed to be endangered by international bodies have not yet been so recognized in China. Many of the listed species are endemic to the country, such as the groove-toothed flying squirrel and the Ili pika.

Designation

The species listed in this article are designated by one or more of the following authorities as endangered or threatened:

  1. The List of Wildlife under Special State Protection as designated by the Chinese State Council pursuant to Article 9 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Wildlife[5][6]
  2. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), in Appendix I of its catalogue includes "species threatened with extinction".[7]
  3. The Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.[8]

Endangered and protected animal species

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Amphibians

Fish

Ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii)[9]

Cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes)

Lancelet

Endangered and protected plant species

Flora

Endangered and protected plant species, of the native and endemic Flora of China.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q This subspecies has not been classified by the IUCN Red List; the conservation status shown refers to the species it belongs to.
  2. ^ Only applicable to A. p. annamiticus.
  3. ^ While the sika deer (Cervus nippon) is considered by the IUCN to be of least concern globally, at least three subspecies, the Shanxi sika deer (Cervus nippon grassianus), North China sika deer (Cervus nippon mandarinus) and Formosan sika deer (Cervus nippon taioanus) are extinct in the wild in China, but are raised on farms in captivity.

References

  1. ^ "Four out of six great apes one step away from extinction – IUCN Red List | IUCN World Conservation Congress". Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  2. ^ Chapman, A.D (September 2005). "Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World: A Report for the Department of the Environment and Heritage". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Biodiversity Information Services. Archived from the original on 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
  3. ^ Countries with the Highest Biological Diversity Archived 2013-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Mongabay.com. 2004 data. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  4. ^ (in Chinese) 北京一级保护野生动物 Beijing Wildlife Conservation Association Archived 2013-04-16 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2013-04-04.
  5. ^ Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Wildlife, adopted November 8, 1988
  6. ^ "国家重点保护野生动物名录" (PDF) (in Chinese). National Forestry and Grassland Administration and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. 2021-02-05. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
  7. ^ CITES species database Accessed 2013-04-23
  8. ^ [1]IUCN Red List Accessed 2013-04-20
  9. ^ Leng, Xiaoqian; Du, Hao; Xiong, Wei; Cheng, Peilin; Luo, Jiang; Wu, Jinming (2023-03-03). "Successful Ultrasonography-Assisted Artificial Reproduction of Critically Endangered Sichuan taimen (Hucho bleekeri)". Fishes. 8 (3): 152. doi:10.3390/fishes8030152. ISSN 2410-3888.