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Threatened life forms

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This 2005 table shows New Zealand’s threatened life forms in their taxonomic groups.

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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/document/14097/threatened-life-forms (accessed 4 June 2026).

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