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A taxon is Endangered when available scientific evidence indicates that it meets any of the criteria A to E in Box 3.2, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. Many high‐profile endangered species fall in this group: for example, giant pandas, tigers², snow leopards, Eastern gorilla, Bornean orangutan, chimpanzees, Asian elephants, blue and fin whales, whooping and Japanese cranes, loggerhead and green turtles, and dawn redwood³.