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.

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 ...

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, ...

In March the IUCN announced that its experts had assessed 482 fungi species for the first time, bringing the Red List’s fungal members up to 1,300. Around a third of those species are at risk of ...

"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 ...

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 IUCN Red List includes more than 150,000 species. The list sometimes overlaps with the species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, such as in the case of the North Atlantic right whale.

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 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.

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 ...