Least Concern definition
Examples of Least Concern in a sentence
When this species was uplisted from Least Concern to Vulnerable in the 2009 Red List update, there was some evidence to suggest that declines may have exceeded a rate of 50% during the past three generations or 45 years (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al.
However, both AEWA-listed species are listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and there is no evidence that plastics are having a population-level impact on these species.
All waterbirds are at risk of entanglement, and this might be problematic for species such as the Northern Gannet, which locally can have up to 20% of birds entangled (but generally the frequency of entanglement is much lower, and the species is listed as Least Concern).
Of the remaining species, 17 are Least Concern and 2 are Data Deficient.
All these species are listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (accessed 29/12/16) and the numbers killed are less than 0.1% of the archipelago’s population.
Priority 2: populations of Least Concern species listed in Categories 1(a), 1(c), or 2 or 3 and marked with an asterisk in Table 1 and in long- or rapid short-term decline; Priority 3: populations of Least Concern species listed in Category 1c not in long- or rapid short-term decline.
Item No. Common Name Scientific Name Chinese Name Conservation and Rarity in Hong Kong2 Distribution in Hong Kong3 Habitat4/5 Protection Status1 500m Assesment Area Project Area (Aboveground) MWL FSW PL S/G WC RE AL DA MWL PL S/G WC DA 1 Asian Common Toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus 黑眶蟾蜍 - Least Concern Widely distributed in Hong Kong.
Nassariidae -- 5 Auricula elongata Ellobioidae Least Concern ver 3.1 6 Salinater burmana -- -- 7 Haminea crocata Haminoeidae -- 8 Stenothyra sp.
In theory all entries that contain data for species other than the Giant-petrels (which are listed as Least Concern by IUCN) could qualify under IBA criteria A1, regular presence of a globally threatened species.
As agreed at the Technical Committee’s 11th Meeting, the following criteria are applied for the selection and prioritization of populations for action planning (to be applied consecutively): IUCN Red List status – in descending order: Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near-threatened (NT) and Least Concern (LC); Population size estimate – in descending order from lowest to highest estimate.