Gulo gulo

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CARNIVORA

Family:

MUSTELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Gulo gulo

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English

—

WOLVERINE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A2c ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Mustelid Specialist Group

History:

1988	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Canada; Estonia; Finland; Mongolia; Norway; Russian Federation; Sweden; United States

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.4	Forest - Temperate
4.1	Grassland - Tundra
4.4	Grassland - Temperate

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Small Carnivore Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Citation:	Mustelid Specialist Group 1996. Gulo gulo. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2008.
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