How many animals do their have to be in order to be endangered?

Question

Like whats the cut off?

Answer 1

I think people should be stopped killing elephants tigers etc.for fun. then perhaps none would become endangered.also whaling should be banned.

Answer 2

I think gazelle

Answer 3

Enough to get someones attention to make the newspaper head line story

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Other wise another animal goes on the use to be here list again

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So how many have already gone to the use to be here list of animals or insects no body knows that one for sure

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Answer 4

any amount it just has to catch some one's attention usually when there is a story online about it honestly people like us who care are really seldom these days so basically we're becoming extinct too if you think about it

Answer 5

It's not a matter of numbers, more of trends. An endangered species (animal or plant) is one that is in immanent danger of extinction. The numbers could be huge but scattered over so wide an area that reproduction is unlikely. Conversely, I know of a plant that is not considered endangered, although the entire range is about the size of my living room. Some farmer with a plow could (theoretically) wipe it out in a day.

Answer 6

There's no cut-off, it varies from species to species. There are some animals, particularly large predators and species whose requirements are very specific, that simply never were that common. Some of these might have numbers in the hundreds or thousands on a good year, yet if the population is healthy and unstressed, it still wouldn't be considered endangered. However, as soon as the population becomes stressed, it might plummet very quickly and catastrophically, and then it's likely to be in much more serious trouble than a more common species, even if the common species is also suffering.

On the other hand, if a once common animal has become severely reduced in numbers due to overharvesting, habitat destruction, or similar, it might be considered endangered even though it still has ten times the numbers a rarer species has when it's still considered a viable population. And if the populations of the more common species have become fragmented across a large area, so there's very little genetic intermingling, it might be considered endangered with a hundred times the population of some little finch happily eating seeds on its 25 square miles of Caribbean island habitat.

It all depends on circumstances.

Answer 7

It depends on the species.  Not every species is meant to have the same population size.

Answer 8

As many as it takes to get some group to start whining.

Answer 9

once it gets down in the hundreds. This also depends on the type of animal and how fast it can repopulate its species