Red Data List

Over the past few months,changes were reported in the IUCN status of certain species . Among these was our adorable little Komodo dragon which moved up to endangered category and probably did a good majority of us a favour. In the same vein , the Satara Gecko saved humanity a huge crisis by getting a promotion ticket to the critically endangered bracket while its fourth cousin Yeracud Day Gecko too joined the endangered pack. While you may or may not be bothered about their IUCN statuses , I'm sure certain others would evoke your interest . Like the lesser Florican and the Finn's Weaver maybe ? And if perhaps not them still,then probably the Nicobar imperial pegion or the Mountain hawk eagle? Now if you're as cold-blooded as my goldfishes and are not affected in the slightest bit by what's happening outside the aquarium that you're swimming in, then let's do another litmus on you . They're saying that the Deolali minnow, the Deccan barb and the Nilgirimystus are "possibly" extinct here. Add to this list,the pink-headed duck , Siberian crane and the Malay owl. If all of this still seems Greek to you,then check the IUCN status of your own kind in your biomes.For example the IUCN status of most of the 1.33 bn  is least concern. You would barely notice their arrival and departure. Some are near threatened but because they're being added to the environment as fast as they're being removed it barely makes a difference.Then comes the vulnerable category whose population does not exceed 10000 mature individuals.Well very much like our Sloth Bear and the Indian Gaur. Next up in the list are those who're endangered. Basically those few whose nunbers don't exceed 250 mature individuals and people who are hard to find and harder to keep ,very much like the snow leopard and the Western Hoolock Gibbon.  Less than 50 mature individuals and we're knocking at the door of those critically endangered. People who are a rarity. Could be a Satara Gecko or a Gharial or a cute brown bear. And no RaGa does not belong to this category though he may resemble a few of those beautiful animals or measure up against the criteria. How many of you have heard of the category extinct in the wild? Well taxons which only survive in captivity or in cultivation or survive as preserved populations fall in this list. To this category belong a few of my friends.It pains me to put them on the same list as the Wyoming Toad  and the Panamanian Golden frog but to be honest such scarcity needs to be acknowledged even if that implies equating them to a frog. Just to clarify, not that I was asked but these animals that I keep in preservation have been under my watchful guidance with the permission of the Animal Welfare Board. Though legally they belong to the government and ultimately to the creator but because I've won governmental favours , they've been handed over to me on lease . They're not for public display so I wouldn't endanger their privacy here by adding pictures of extinction and antiquity.Anyways, the chapter on red data list draws to an end here since I've to rush to address the issue of climate change (precisely,the forehead's ) 

Save Earth ,Save Life .

P.S.- I have nothing against species that are Komodo fans or whose fourth or fifth cousin is a gibbon. 

PS 2- The Indian Gaur is not my relative and not in the slightest bit me.