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About endangered wildlife species

Endangered wildlife species are designated and protected by the Ministry of Environment under the Wildlife Protection and Management Act in order to effectively protect wildlife.

Endangered wildlife refers to the wildlife that is facing the extinction in a near future as its number has plummeted or is too few due to natural or artificial threatening factors. They are legally protected and controlled and categorized in class I and class II.

Endangered Wildlife Class I

Designated: 60 species

Wildlife that is facing a crisis of extinction for the drastic decrease in population due to the natural or artificial threatening factors, designated by the order of the Ministry of Environment after consultation with ministers of related central administrative institutions.
Endangered Wildlife Class II

Designated: 207 species

Wildlife that can face a crisis of extinction in the near future if the current threatening factors are not removed, for it is suffering the drastic decrease in population due to the natural or artificial threatening factors, designated by the order of the Ministry of Environment after consultation with ministers of related central administrative institutions.

History of designation

1989~1997
Designation of specific wildlife (animals and plants)
- 1989~1997
- Designation of 203 species
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1998~2004
Designation of endangered & protected wildlife
- 1998~2004
- Designation of 194 species
Details
1989~1997
Designation of endangered wildlife (class I & II)
- 2005~2011
- Designation of 221 species
Details
1989~1997
First revision of endangered wildlife
- 2012.7.27.
- Designation of 246 species
Details
1989~1997
Second revision of endangered wildlife
- 2017.12.29.
- Designation of 267 species
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Changes in the national designation of endangered wildlife species

NIE Endangered Species Recovery Center

MISSION

Healthy ecosystems of the Korean peninsula with the recovery of endangered wildlife species

GOALS
- Act as a core institution that establishes and operates policies for protecting national endangered species
- Secure world-class technology for preservation and recovery of endangered species
- Build and operate a scientific system for the proliferation, restoration and evaluation of endangered species
- Educate and raise awareness about the preservation and restoration of endangered species
VISION A core institution for the preservation and recovery of endangered wildlife
TASKS
- Secure technology for the recovery of endangered wildlife
- Become a control tower that deals with national endangered wildlife
- Pursue collaborative research with conservation bodies (external cooperation)
- Boost global preservation networks (global relations)
- Foster professional researchers
- Raise public awareness and participation

주요기능

01 Strategies
of recovery
- Establishment of mid to long-term plan for research on endangered wildlife
- Evaluation of endangered wildlife recovery projects and seeking ways of conservation of habitats
- Research on the conservation of habitats of endangered wildlife
02 Recovery of
proliferation
- Securing a pure breed of each taxonomic group of endangered species and development of manuals for proliferation and recovery
- Development and distribution of technologies for proliferation and recovery of each taxonomic group of endangered species
03 Education
& promotion
- Development and operation of education program on endangered species
- Establishment and execution of promotion strategies on accomplishments of recovery of species
04 Operations
management
- Establishment of mid to long-term operation plan for NIE Endangered Species Recovery Center
- Facility management and administrative support

NIE Endangered Species Recovery Center working with related institutions

NIE Endangered Species Recovery Center

Planning Coordination
Research & Development Transference
Performance Evaluation Assistance

Conservation institutions outside habitats, local governments, colleges and universities, research institutions, private institutions

Korea National Park Service Species Restoration Technology Institute

Database construction

Follow-up management

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