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Mirounga leonina | New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2005

Publication
New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2005
NRL Record ID
92226
Location
Countries in Assessment
New Zealand
Country ISO code(s)
NZL
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Off
Scope (Assessment)
National
Taxon
Taxonomic Group
Vertebrates
Taxonomic Group Level 2
Mammals
Habitats and Ecology
Ecological system type
Terrestrial system
No
Freshwater system
No
Marine system
No
Is there a map available in assessment?
Not_assigned
Assessed status
Asessment status in full
1 Nationally critical
Assessment status abreviation
CR
Assessment status criteria
Status criteria: 1, 2a
About the assessment
Assessment year
2005
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Hitchmough, R., Bull, L., Cromarty, P (compilers). 2007. New Zealand Threat Classification System lists- 2005. Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conservation.
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
Assessor affiliation specific
Government
Criteria system
Criteria system specifics
New Zealand Threat Classfication System
Criteria system used
Non-IUCN
Criteria Citation
Molloy, J.; Bell, B.; Clout, M.; de Lange, P.; Gibbs, G.; Given, D.; Norton, D.; Smith, N.; Stephens, T. 2002: Classifying species according to threat of extinction. A system for NewZealand. Threatened species occasional publication 22, 26 p.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/MultiPageDocumentTOC.aspx?id=42704; http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSOP22.pdf; http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap244.pdf
Supplementary Links

Department of Conservation: About; Department of Conservation: Conservation

Endemism
Endemic to region
Not assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Conservation
Conservation Measures

Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:

Further information
Redlist Notes

Qualifier(s): Secure Overseas?, Human Induced; Note(s): Australasian population declining rapidly, but world-wide population roughly stable. Total NZ population 250-260 (<10 on Campbell Is., rest on Antipodes Is.). Down from c. 420 in 1990s.. Threatened Overseas qualifier changed to Secure Overseas?, as world population roughly stable despite Australasian and Indian Ocean declines.