Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global assessment announced today at the ongoing ...

Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published ...

"[Many species] probably have been overlooked," said Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List Unit ... country where many people rely on small-scale farming and agriculture for their ...

The latest IUCN Red List assessment has painted a stark picture for global tree conservation, revealing that 38% of tree ...

underscoring the scale of the crisis facing our planet’s ecosystems. The report for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, which dropped during the two-week UN ...

Three species of abalone found in waters around Japan are now on the Red List of threatened ... on the three-grade scale of threatened animals. While inclusion in the list places no direct ...