Wildlife Action Plan 2015 Revision Process White Paper
Treat Scope and Severity
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THREAT–SCOPE
THREAT–SEVERITY
(a) Pervasive
Afects all or most (71%–100%) of the total population or occurrences Afects much (31%–70%) of the total population or occurrences Afects some (11%–30%) of the total population or occurrences Afects a small (1%–10%) pro- portion of the total popula- tion or occurrences
(a) Extreme
Likely to destroy or eliminate occurrences, or reduce the population 71%–100% Likely to seriously degrade/ reduce afected occurrences or habitat or reduce the popu- lation 31%–70% Likely to moderately degrade/ reduce afected occurrences or habitat or reduce the popu- lation 11%–30% Likely to only slightly degrade/reduce afected occurrences or habitat, or reduce the population 1%–10% Tere is insufcient informa- tion to determine the severity of threats
(b) Large
(b) Serious
(c) Restricted
(c) Moderate
(d) Small
(d) Slight
(e) Unknown
Tere is insufcient informa- tion to determine the scope of threats
(e) Unknown
(f) None
(f) None
Scope and severity risk categories used for assigning threat scores
T ABLE F.3
B. Knowledge Gap Category One of the obstacles to wildlife conservation and management is often a lack of scien- tifc information about a species or taxa group. A lack of information inhibits the ability to assess a species’ risk of extinction based on its distribution, population status, or other metric (IUCN CMP 2012) . Changes that occur over long time periods may be hard to detect or
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