Endangered species

By rss@youtube.com (mamoralesm) This part explains how Conservation International (CI) uses the "IUCN List of Threatened Species" to prioritize which species need urgent conservation actions to avoid their extinction. Keywords: Biodiversity priority species IUCN extinction threatened species endangered spec...

The 2009 edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released today, and the news isn't good: 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction. [More]

The latest regional update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds bad news for mammals living around the Mediterranean. One in six species in the area are now threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN report, " The Status and Distribution of Mediterranean Mammals ,"--t...

In its latest four-year assessment of endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added several new entries to the Red List of Threatened Species. Judging from the list's expansion, the report warns, the world is unlikely to meet a goal of reversin...

 UK blue parrot found in north-eastern Brazil, has been down listed from Critically Endangered (the highest threat category) to Endangered as a direct result of conservation action, revealed the 2009 update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ...

 Australia This body publishes the numbers of endangered plants and animals in what is known menacingly as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. As countries such as the US, Australia and Ecuador clock up numbers at the thousand mark, we watch the figures grow ...

 UK Significant numbers of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers were counted, as well as several rare or globally threatened species, such as Lesser Kestrel, listed as Vulnerable on the Global IUCN Red List, and Pallid Harrier, classified as Endangered on the ...

By Buck Denton The panda is an endangered species, but according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species the giant panda’s population is increasing: “At least until recently there has been a general population decline, although there is hope that this has been reversed by general habitat improvem...

By Mike Millikin Approximately one in four species of land mammal and one in three marine mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a major new study carried out by some 1,800 scientists in 130 countries. The results, in the form of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, were presented at the I...

The warning was issued during the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, as the IUCN issued the latest update in its Red List of threatened species.  The IUCN also lists other Coral Triangle species at risk of extinction, such as green turtles (Endangered), hawksbill turtles (Criti...