How does the list change? Endangered list worksheet
An A4 worksheet on how Korea's endangered wildlife list changed over twenty years: students fill in a timeline strip, then answer four questions. A teacher's key is included.
Where do the values come from?
Every number comes from the amendment record of Study 09, built from all 41 versions of the Enforcement Rule at the National Law Information Center. The species behind each date are on the page '20 years of the list'.
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How does the list change? Twenty years of Korea's endangered wildlife list
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Korea's endangered wildlife list is Annex 1 of the Enforcement Rule of the Wildlife Protection and Management Act. Each box on the strip is the list from the day it changed until the next change.
Timeline strip
Fill in the blanks. The number in a box plus the species added (+) minus those removed (−) gives the number in the next box.
Question 1. The Rule was reissued 41 times between 2005 and 2026. How many times did the content of the list (species, classes, names) change? Count the arrows on the strip.
Question 2. How many species were removed from the list in all? Which change removed the most? Does removal mean the species has recovered?
Question 3. The Spotted Seal (Phoca largha) moved from Class II to Class I in 2022, yet the education cards and the Korean Wikipedia list checked in this study still gave Class II. Why can this happen?
Question 4. The ministry's press releases announce additions, removals and class changes. Which kind of change do they leave out, and why does it matter?
Source: Study 09, tracking 20 years of amendments (Annex 1 of the Enforcement Rule, 7 Feb 2005 – 12 May 2026, 41 versions). h-grae.com/research/en/korea/history.html
Teacher's key · How does the list change? Twenty years of Korea's endangered wildlife list
Korea's endangered wildlife list is Annex 1 of the Enforcement Rule of the Wildlife Protection and Management Act. Each box on the strip is the list from the day it changed until the next change.
Timeline strip
Fill in the blanks. The number in a box plus the species added (+) minus those removed (−) gives the number in the next box.
Question 1. The Rule was reissued 41 times between 2005 and 2026. How many times did the content of the list (species, classes, names) change? Count the arrows on the strip.
6 times (1 Oct 2007, 31 May 2012, 27 Jul 2012, 29 Dec 2017, 27 May 2020, 9 Dec 2022). The other versions amended other articles and left the list as it was.
Question 2. How many species were removed from the list in all? Which change removed the most? Does removal mean the species has recovered?
39 in all; the change of 31 May 2012 removed 31. The amended list itself gives no reasons, so they have to be checked species by species in the ministry's press release of the time. Removal alone does not show that a species recovered.
Question 3. The Spotted Seal (Phoca largha) moved from Class II to Class I in 2022, yet the education cards and the Korean Wikipedia list checked in this study still gave Class II. Why can this happen?
An amendment is published as a new version of the whole list, and copies of the list do not update themselves: someone has to correct each one by hand. Of 27 observable changes of 2022, 9 reached the Wikipedia list within a year; 9 of 10 cards showed the current class (the other was the Spotted Seal).
Question 4. The ministry's press releases announce additions, removals and class changes. Which kind of change do they leave out, and why does it matter?
Renames: 98 in 20 years, of which 17 changed the protected unit, not just its name. Example (9 Dec 2022): 꼬마잠자리 (Nannophya pygmaea) → 한국꼬마잠자리 (Nannophya koreana). A search by the old name no longer finds it in the current list.
Source: Study 09, tracking 20 years of amendments (Annex 1 of the Enforcement Rule, 7 Feb 2005 – 12 May 2026, 41 versions). h-grae.com/research/en/korea/history.html
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