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Threatened species categories

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Threatened species categories

This flow chart shows how the Department of Conservation classifies life forms found in the wild in New Zealand. The categories in bold at the bottom of the chart are those assigned to threatened species in New Zealand. ‘Data-deficient’ species are those where there is not enough information to confidently assign them a category.

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Gerard Hutching and Carl Walrond, Threatened species – Which species are threatened?, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/14094/threatened-species-categories (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching and Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.

Comments

Karen
18 June 2011
This threat classification was revised in 2008 by the Department of Conservation. http://www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/nz-threat-classification-system/nz-threat-classification-system-manual-2008/