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Updated IUCN Red list
July 22 , 2019
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- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
- An updated list was published which added nearly 9,000 more species to the IUCN Red List, bringing up the total to 105,732.
- According to the new updated list, 28,338 species are threatened with extinction.
- This comes close to the recent release of the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Global Biodiversity Assessment.
- Twenty Australian dragonflies were also assessed for the first time.
- The new list brings out an alarming rate of decline of freshwater and deep-sea species.
- Among ocean species, wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes, collectively known as Rhino Rays because of their elongated snouts, have been listed as the ‘most imperilled marine fish families in the world’.
- Close to 50 per cent of the species assessed by IUCN have been put under the ‘Least Concern’ category.
- It means the rest 50 per cent are under various degrees of decline.
- Of the total assessed, 873 are already extinct while 6,127 are critically endangered.
- According to the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020)’s Target 12, the extinction of known threatened species has to be ‘prevented’ by 2020.
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