A list of threatened species was released at the COP15 to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada.
It has shown what overconsumption and unsustainable harvesting can do to plants and animals around us.
As many as 44 per cent of all abalone shellfish species are now threatened with extinction.
Dugong populations in east Africa and New Caledonia have entered the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered and Endangered respectively.
The species remains Vulnerable globally.
The pillar coral, found throughout the Caribbean from the Yucatan Peninsula and Florida to Trinidad and Tobago, has moved from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.