A taxon is Lower Risk when it has been evaluated but does not satisfy the criteria for any of the categories Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. Taxa included in the Lower Risk category can be separated into three subcategories:

1. Conservation Dependent (CD): taxa which are the focus of a continuing taxon-specific or habitat-specific conservation programme targeted towards the taxon in question, the cessation of which would result in the taxon qualifying for one of the threatened categories above within a period of five years;

2. Near Threatened (NT): taxa which do not qualify as Conservation Dependent, but which are close to qualifying as Vulnerable;

3. Least Concern (LC): taxa which do not qualify as Conservation Dependent or Near Threatened.

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