Dame Georgina Mace, played a major role in creating the Red List of endangered species – obituary
Dame Georgina Mace, played a major role in creating the Red List of endangered species – obituary She angered some charities by downgrading the threat to certain animals, but her list formed the basis of global conservation policy Dame Georgina Mace Credit: ©Kate Green/Alpha Press Dame Georgina Mace, who has died of cancer aged 67, defined the scientific criteria for different categories of threat in the so-called Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
