National Endangered Species Day began in 2006 to raise awareness. The IUCN Red List includes over 41,000 endangered species.

Assessing extinction threats – toward a reevaluation of IUCN threatened species categories. Conservation Biology 5: 148–157. Marton-Lefevre, J. and J. Smart. 2009. Preface. In: Wildlife in a changing ...

Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve heard of it: the IUCN keeps tabs on ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) will publish the latest version of its Red List of wildlife species in danger of extinction on Oct. 29. The ...

Ripple and his team created a database to examine the correlations between body mass, range size, and extinction risk for more than 27,000 vertebrates on the International Union for the Conservation ...

The IUCN Red List uses precise criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species. When a species is defined as 'threatened', which includes most of the species featured in Last ...

Conclusions from the new study "Living with Uncertainty: Using Multi-Model Large Ensembles to Assess Emperor Penguin Extinction Risk ... implications for the IUCN Red List reassessment of emperor ...

According to IPBES, nearly one million animal and plant species are at risk of extinction. As of 2024, the IUCN Red List includes over 14,000 species as threatened due to 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. Human ...

The IUCN red list assessed 120,372 species, of which 32,441 species were designated as threatened with extinction. The latest red list still includes Pacific bluefin tuna and Japanese eel ...

“Ash trees are essential to plant communities of the United States and have been a popular horticultural species,” Murphy Westwood, a member of the IUCN Global Tree Specialist ... has now been ...