Number of endangered species
Many Dutch plants and animals are endangered.

Trends
Red Lists of endangered species have been drawn up for a number of plant and animal groups, revealing that over a third of the species in each species group are endangered (see figure). Only in the marine fish group is the percentage smaller. In the reptile, fungi and butterfly groups, as many as two-thirds of the species are on the Red List. Many species of butterfly, stonefly, freshwater fish and lichen have gone extinct in the Netherlands.



