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This new IUCN Red List assessment provides critical scientific support for strengthening protections for emperor penguins under the Antarctic Treaty System.
They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...
A grim report highlights the extinction of five species between 2019 and 2024, including the Chinese Paddlefish and the Poʻouli bird. Habitat loss, disease, and dam construction are major factors.
"It shows that we are having quite a devastating impact on marine species," Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told Reuters. "Underwater, you can't really see what's going on.
VOV.VN - The Huong Khe District Forest Protection Unit in central Ha Tinh province in coordination with Vu Quang National ...
The IUCN red list also warns that five species of frankincense tree on Socrota Island, Yemen, have moved from vulnerable to extinction to the higher-risk category of endangered, ...
IUCN typically updates the red list two or three times a year. This week’s update includes more than 3,000 additions to the red list. Of those, 700 are threatened with extinction.
The IUCN Red List now includes 166,061 species, of which 46,337 are classed as threatened with extinction. The update has been published as countries meet in Cali, Colombia, ...
The latest I.U.C.N. Red List update also held bad news for sturgeons: All surviving species are now at risk of extinction, up from 85 percent of species in 2009.
Several firefly species are at risk, according to the Xerces Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species. The IUCN looked at 128 species and ...
Bad news for sturgeons, good news for tigers. The IUCN also announced today that all species of sturgeons—26 in total—are now at risk of extinction, and 17 of those are critically endangered.
The red wolf species, one of two wolf species in North America, has a dangerously small population size and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List.