Percentage of Animal Species Threatened per Country
This choropleth map shows the percentage of animals in each country listed as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Putting these categories together, they are known as 'threatened' animals.
It was created by organizing and cleaning up data from the IUCN website in Excel. The data was then combined with country polygons and converted into a geoJSON using QGIS. This was referenced in the HTML file in the map's script following Leaflet guidelines. The markers were added and stylized for the top five highest percentages of threatened animals as one may not see them immediately otherwise when looking at the map at full scale.