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Latest Red List of Threatened Species
September 12 , 2021
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- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released this report.
- Some 902 species are officially extinct according to the latest Red List
- The Red List also shows that 30 per cent of the species (38,543) that it assessed (138,374) face the threat of extinction.
- Some 80 species are extinct in the wild, 8,404 are critically endangered, 14,647 are endangered, 15,492 are vulnerable and 8,127 are near threatened.
- The Atlantic bluefin tuna moved from endangered to least concern.
- The Southern bluefin tuna moved from critically endangered to endangered.
- The world’s largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon has been moved from vulnerable to endangered.
- The species is endemic to Indonesia and occurs only in the World Heritage-listed Komodo National Park.
