In 2008, the IUCN assessed 892 warm-water coral species and determined approximately one-third were at risk of extinction.

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction -- and climate change is the chief culprit, a ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

COP16 has made its mark. Hailed as the biggest biodiversity COP ever, with a record number of delegates (around 23,000), a ...

Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published ...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Alipay Ant Forest and IUCN are ...

The risk of extinction for tree species surpasses the combined threat levels faced by birds, mammals, reptiles, and ...

New research reveals a third of Australia’s freshwater fishes are at risk of extinction. That means 35 species should be ...

The warning came in the Global Tree Assessment, contained in an update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Issued to coincide with the UN's ...

The conservation status for all 892 species was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red ...

Around 40% of the threatened species lack ex situ conservation (zoo ... Ex situ species holding data by Species360 are now ...