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5 days ago · Graphic showing 50% of mangrove ecosystems in the IUCN threat categories of Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered at risk of collapse, which represents around 50% of the world’s ...
5 days ago · Here are the key findings of the research: - Amphibians are in significant danger, with an alarming 41% on the verge of extinction. - Of 65,000 vertebrate species, which constitute merely 3% of all animal species, are under the threat of extinction. - According to the IUCN Red List, 42,100 out of 65,000 are facing an imminent threat of extinction.
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3 days ago · Law. 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq. | (1973) obligated the government to protect all animal and plant life threatened with extinction, including in this category “endangered” species, defined as any species “which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range,” and “threatened” species, defined as any ...
18 hours ago · Having been driven to extinction in a substantial portion of its former range, the yellow-crested cockatoo is currently classified as critically endangered. Incredibly, feral populations of several hundred birds exist in the highly urbanised cities of Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as in China, which could potentially play a significant role ...
5 days ago · Rulemaking pertaining to critical habitat designation, interagency cooperation and blanket protections for threatened species have taken effect. The Interior Department has finalized revisions to a suite of Endangered Species Act regulations. In response to the previous administrations’ easing of restrictions, which TWS largely opposed, the U ...
5 days ago · Established in 2014, the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) is a global standard for how we evaluate the conservation status of environments, applicable at local, national, regional, and global levels. It acts as a tool for assessing and monitoring the ‘health’ of global ecosystems, the threats these environments face and ways to reduce risks to ...
5 days ago · Stuart L. Pimm. Biodiversity, the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth. A common measure of this variety, called species richness, is the count of species in an area. Biodiversity encompasses the genetic variety within each species and the variety of ecosystems that species create.
