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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Three-quarters of Australia's freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) will publish the latest version of its Red List of wildlife ... Overfishing has threatened the species.

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 ...

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

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

The number of threatened trees is more than ... "Trees directly underpin the survival of so many species – including many found on the IUCN Red List. Thriving, naturally diverse forests are ...