By Mongabay.com The IUCN Red List has long been the globally recognized gauge for assessing how close to extinction a given ...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, first published in 1964, has become the leading source of information about threatened and endangered species, and the IUCN continues to be among the most ...

The IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species tracks more than 150,000 species to guide global conservation efforts on behalf of the most threatened. However, 38% of marine fish species (or 4,992 ...

Of these, roughly 5,000 species, or 40%, are listed as data deficient or not evaluated. This means these species don’t have a formal conservation status, which makes it hard to protect them.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), one of the largest and most influential conservation organizations in the world, boasts a network of 15,000 scientific experts, some of whom ...