downlistv.
/daʊnˈlɪst/, U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌlɪst/ transitive. To reclassify (an animal or plant) to a category indicating less danger of extinction in an official list of endangered, threatened, and vulnerable species.
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1978 Duke Law Jrnl. No. 3. 804 The American alligator has been downlisted from endangered to threatened in several Louisiana parishes.
1994 Voice 18 Oct. 19/2 South Africa's proposal to downlist its elephants, if accepted, will send the wrong signals to poachers, dealers and consumers, who will see it as the first step towards a resumed ivory trade.
2010 Independent 26 May 9/5 The Chatham albatross from New Zealand has also been downlisted from Critically Endangered to Vulnerable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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