Endangered Animals Australia 2024

Endangered Animals Australia 2024. The rate of loss has not slowed in the past 200 years. The iucn red list categories and criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction.

The australian government has added another 13 native plants and animals to our national list of threatened species, bringing the total to 2,118 species of which 102 are extinct. Some of our australian animals are very well known like kangaroos, dingos, wallabies and wombats and of course the koala, platypus and echidna.