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Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

44,000 Species Are Threatened With Extinction, IUCN Reports

Author:     : Paige Bennett
Source:     EcoWatch
Publication Date:     December 12, 2023
 Link: 44,000 Species Are Threatened With Extinction, IUCN Reports
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Because, as COP28 demonstrates, humanity just can’t seem to be able to make fostering wellbeing at every level, this is what we are doing to the earth’s matrix of consciousness. We are creating day-by-day the catastrophe that is going to ruin the lives of our children and their children, but we don’t seem to be capable of waking up to this reality.

Atlantic salmon swimming in the sea in Yorkshire, UK. The species is increasingly threatened by climate change.
Credit: Paul Abrahams / 500px / Getty

According to the latest report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), about 44,016 species are threatened with extinction. This comprises about 28% of the 157,190 species listed in the IUCN Red List.

About 7,000 of the more than 44,000 threatened species are at risk due to climate change, Yale Environment 260 reported.

“Climate change is menacing the diversity of life our planet harbours, and undermining nature’s capacity to meet basic human needs,” Grethel Aguilar, director general of IUCN, shared in a statement. “This IUCN Red List update highlights the strong links between the climate and biodiversity crises, which must be tackled jointly. Species declines are an example of the havoc being wreaked by climate change, which we have the power to stop with urgent, ambitious action to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.”

Further, the new updates to the Red List found that 25% of freshwater fish, or […]

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