Threatened mammal species

Colour represents number of globally threatened mammal species in each country in 2000. Pie charts represent the proportion of the mammal fauna assessed as threatened at the national level in a small sample of countries. This is a highly generalised comparison because of differences in status assessment methods. Note: to reduce ambiguity Alaska (USA) has for the purposes of this map been assigned to the same class as adjacent Canada rather than the conterminous USA.
Source: global data from Hilton-Taylor, country data from selection of national Red Data Books.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Online at http://www.redlist.org/