The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species guides conservationists in their race against extinction by assessing the threats faced by species around the globe. Over 86,000 have been assessed so far. A ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Conservation Biology, Vol. 21, No. 5 (Oct., 2007), pp. 1324-1332 (9 pages) A World Conservation Union (IUCN) regional red list is an objective assessment of regional extinction risk and is not the ...

The status of three bird species found in South Africa have been reclassified in an update of the IUCN Red Data List after they experienced global population declines. The three birds are the ...

The National Red List Assessment (NRLA) will evaluate roughly 7,000 flora and 4,000 fauna species to determine their ...

Incomplete information is leaving many endangered species off conservation priorities. The majority of species are poorly known, many only from a handful of museum specimens. This makes determining ...

Arum lilies, a wildflower considered endangered on the red data list, are in plentiful bloom in some parts of the Cape. The red data list is the world's leading indicator of the health of global ...

Mark D Scherz is a member of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group for Madagascar On the Red List, species are given a rank on a scale of least concern (no conservation action needed), near ...

Conservation efforts in New Zealand to save the flightless kiwi bird have paid off, with two species – the Northern brown and the rowi – no longer at a high risk of extinction. The latest update to ...