Claim: The brown bear is listed on species listing.
Evidence: While the brown bear 's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions , it remains listed as a least concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -LRB- IUCN -RRB- with a total population of approximately 200,000.
The organization is best known to the wider public for compiling and publishing the IUCN Red List , which assesses the conservation status of species worldwide.