Brazil has 1,173 species of fauna at risk of extinction, and another 318, although not close to extinction, are also threatened. The information is in the 2018 Red Book of Brazilian Fauna Threatened with Extinction, the result of a study involving 1,270 researchers and published by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).

The new edition of the official list of animals at risk of extinction follows on from reports produced in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008. The current numbers review the lists published by the Ministry of the Environment at the end of 2014, in accordance with the ministry's ordinances no. 444 and 445, and the 2008 Red Book. It also updates some of the species nomenclatures previously used in these documents.

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