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“Red lists”, species dying/surviving per year, threatened species’ number  

Pros & Cons

3 Pros:

  • Easily understandable quantitative data
  • Relative (%) and absolute numbers of species
  • Clear criterion of “threatened to die out”


3 Cons:

  • No differentiation into levels of endangerment
  • Little geographic localisation 
  • Biospheric functionality of endangered species is left unexplained and unquantified, i.e. result of loss
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