The Unfolding Story of Extinction
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently published the data for their 2021 Red List. As part of the list, the IUCN provides data for the number of threatened species that they have assessed in countries throughout the world. [Read more…] about The 10 Countries with the Most Known Threatened Species 2021
The IUCN World Conservation Congress closed last week in Marseille by urging governments to implement a “nature-based recovery from the pandemic” by investing at least 10% of global recovery funds in nature. The Congress also adopted a series of resolutions and [Read more…] about IUCN Conservation Congress 2020
It is estimated there are 8–10 million species on Earth. Of these, around two million have been formally described which, in simple terms means these species have been discovered, have been shown to be different from other species previously described and [Read more…] about The Unfolding Story of Extinction 2021
In the 21st century, the story of species extinction is not a story about ‘natural’ extinctions; it is a story about humans forcing species into extinction. And humans are forcing Earth’s species into extinction at an alarming rate. [Read more…] about This Journal is a Journey