Endangered Species List Gets 32 More Animals, 14 Plants

The government added 32 animals and 14 plants to its list of endangered species in 1984, including the giant panda, the woodland caribou and the little Mariana fruit bat, the Interior Department said Thursday.

The additions bring the number of endangered and threatened species to 828, with 331 of those species found in the United States and 497 in other countries, said Robert Jantzen, director of the department’s Fish and Wildlife Service.

Three species once classified as “endangered” have been upgraded to “threatened.” Among those whose status was upgraded is the snail darter, a tiny fish that stalled construction of a multimillion-dollar federal dam on the Tennessee River for two years in the late 1970s.