endangered species
Let an agent explain what an endangered species is, relay how species are assessed and the threats they face from conservation sources with current status checked, and distinguish endangered from other threatened categories and from extinct species.
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Understand What an endangered species is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an endangered species, and how does it differ from vulnerable, critically endangered and extinct? definition
- Is the question about a current status, which needs current sources? boundary
Categories
Categories.
Categories
Categories.
- How do the threatened categories rank risk? definition
- Which entry fits the specific category? action
Assessment Assessment.
Criteria
Criteria.
Criteria
Criteria.
- How is a species assessed as endangered? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Bodies
Conservation bodies.
Bodies
Bodies.
- Which bodies assess and list endangered species? provenance
- Is the status current? boundary
Threats Threats.
Causes
Causes.
Causes
Causes.
- What threats push species toward extinction? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Conservation
Conservation.
Conservation
Conservation.
- How are endangered species protected? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Context.
Law
Legal protection.
Law
Law.
- How does law protect endangered species? provenance
- Does protection vary by country? boundary
Extinction
Extinction risk.
Extinction
Extinction.
- How does the endangered status relate to extinction? provenance
- Which entry fits extinct species? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- endangered plant
What it is Filled
An endangered species is a species of animal, plant or other organism judged to be at serious risk of extinction in the near future, usually because its numbers are low or falling sharply from threats such as habitat loss, hunting or climate change; the registry alias names endangered plants. Species are assessed and categorised by conservation bodies, and endangered is one of the threatened categories. The category reflects an assessment that should be checked against current sources.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain what an endangered species is, relay how species are assessed and the threats they face from conservation sources with current status checked, and distinguish endangered from other threatened categories and from extinct species.
Distinguishing features Filled
- High extinction risk
- Assessed status
- A threatened category
- Reflects current data
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Disclose precise locations of endangered species where that could help poachers or collectors.
- Assist in capturing, killing, trading or disturbing endangered species unlawfully.
- Present an outdated assessment as the current status.
- Approach, handle or feed endangered animals or pick endangered plants.
Only with a human decision
- Releasing location data on rare species.
- Intervening with an injured endangered animal.
May
- Report a species' conservation status from the current assessment, naming the assessing body and date.
- Log and report sightings of endangered species to recognised recording schemes.
- Explain the threatened categories and how endangered differs from vulnerable or extinct.
Moral aspects Filled
- Each species lost is irreversible; human pressure causes most declines.
- Conservation rules can affect local people's livelihoods, and they should be heard.
Who is affected
- Endangered species themselves
- Local communities
- Future generations
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: wild and protected by law; conservation authorities manage protection.
Master systems
- International and national red lists of threatened species
- Biodiversity occurrence databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q16197023 - registry parent class
related
- threatened species - in registry terms
- vulnerable species
- extinct species
- conservation bodies
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.endangered-species
- Wikidata: Q11394 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11394)
Direct properties required Filled
- meaning: at serious risk of extinction note
- assessed by: conservation bodies note
- registry parent: threatened species note
Recognition required Filled
- A species at serious risk of extinction
- Endangered animals and endangered plants
- Vulnerable is a lower risk; critically endangered is higher; extinct means the species is gone
- Not a visible object; a conservation status assigned to a species.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the status
- relay assessment and threats
- distinguish it from other categories
- note status should be checked
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing threatened categories
- Stale status assessments
- Confusing endangered and extinct
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Conservation assessment criteria
- wildlife protection law
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a conservation status of a species.
- endangered animals
- endangered plants
- critically endangered species
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11394: endangered species - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Endangered species - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should categories be separate entries?
- How should status be verified?
- How should threats be summarised?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11394/spec.json