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A list of threatened species
December 16 , 2022
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- 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.
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