Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

Research finds that appetite for bushmeat – rather than the black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – ...

Experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have analysed how targeted management of invasive ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of ...

Nearly one-third of fungi species assessed on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction, with over 400 species at risk due to agricultural expansion, deforestation, and climate change.

The overall IUCN red list now includes 169,420 species, of which 47,187 are threatened with extinction. The latest update also reveals that frankincense trees are increasingly at risk. Why are ...

Birds have been assessed on the IUCN Red List for far longer and more regularly than any other group, allowing them to act as our compass guiding our pioneering approach with the Red List Index to ...

For the first time, the majority of the world’s trees have been listed on the IUCN Red List, revealing that at least 16,425 of the 47,282 species assessed are at risk of extinction. Trees now account ...

Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction — 1,000 more than last year, ... The organization says the IUCN Red List is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity.

First-ever global Red List assessment of abalone underlines urgency of combatting illegal trade. The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM reveals as much as 44% of all abalone ...

“These populations’ vulnerabilities have increased due to climate change, and that’s what’s pushed them into threatened categories on the IUCN Red List,” she said. *This article was updated Dec. 19, ...