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More than a quarter of the world's assessed animal, plant and fungi species are now threatened with extinction. The latest Red List update from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has 31 new extinctions including frogs and freshwater fish. The pink bellied dolphin of the Amazon has also been moved to the endangered list. A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in trouble showed. More than a quarter of the 128,918 animal, plant...

Full article The organization also moved an Amazon dolphin with a pinkish belly the Tucuxi to its endangered list, meaning that all of the world's freshwater dolphins are now threatened A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday. More than a quarter of the 128,918 animal, plant and fungi species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

A few days after Dr Pilapitiya’s resignation officials of the Department of Wildlife had said that every Director General of Wildlife and even wildlife officials were subject to immense political pressure. Most of the conservationists contacted were of the view that Sri Lanka’s wildlife could be conserved even at this late stage President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should take up the challenge Elephant at Yala National Park (Endangered) The Wildlife Department was established in October 1949 but the first attempt to stop the destruction of Sri Lanka’s wildlife resources was made in 1889, by th...

Near Threatened = 7,644 Lower Risk/conservation dependent = 180 (this is an old category that is gradually being phased out of The IUCN Red List) Least Concern = 66,469 Data Deficient = 17,878 The figures presented above are only for those species that have been assessed for The IUCN Red List to date. Although not all of the world’s species have been assessed, The IUCN Red List provides a useful snapshot of what is happening to species today and highlights the urgent need for conservation action. Relative percentages for threatened species cannot be provided for many taxonomic groups on The...