[Replaces
New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2002 Published:
2002]
Published:
January 2007
Identifying species at risk of extinction and measuring the level and nature of that risk.
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Please note: Replacement lists have been published for birds and vascular plants. They have been published in the following journals.
de Lange PJ, Norton DA, Courtney SP, Heenan PB, Barkla JW, Cameron EK, Hitchmough RA, Townsend AJ 2009. Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61-96.
Miskelly CM, Dowding JE, Elliot GP, Hitchmough RA, Powlesland RG, Robertson HA, Sagar PM, Scofield RP, Taylor GA 2008. Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2008. Notornis 55: 117-135.
Summary
In 2002, the Department of Conservation (DOC) published a document which set out a system for classifying species according to threat of extinction using criteria that had specifically been developed for New Zealand conditions. At the same time, a companion volume presented the results of using that system to classify all those species for which sufficient information was available. For the first time it was possible to provide an accurate threat classification for all those taxa for which information was available, ensuring that all those that were threatened received the necessary attention to secure their future.
This document updates the earlier lists, recording both actual changes in status and changes in our understanding as more knowledge is gathered, with the inclusion of additional species in many groups.
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Rod Hitchmough, Leigh Bull and Pam Cromarty (compilers) ISBN 0–478–14128–9