IUCN adds more than 7,000 to its Red List

More than 28,000 species around the world are threatened, according to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

This Red List update doesn’t hold a lot of good news. It takes the total number of threatened species to 28,338 (or 27% of those assessed) and logs the extinction of 873 species since the year 1500.

Red List

  • Established in 1964, The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become ....
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