Subject: [Oversea] World’s oldest and largest species in decline – IUCN Red List [Print This Page] Author: HKBWS WY Time: 8/07/2013 11:49 Subject: World’s oldest and largest species in decline – IUCN Red List
World’s oldest and largest species in decline – IUCN Red List
02 July 2013
The latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ shows worrying declines for conifers – the world’s oldest and largest organisms – freshwater shrimps, cone snails and the Yangtze Finless Porpoise. The Santa Cruz Pupfish, a lizard known as the Cape Verde Giant Skink and a species of freshwater shrimp have been declared Extinct.
With this update, 4,807 species have been added to The IUCN Red List bringing the total of assessed species to 70,294, of which 20,934 are threatened with extinction.
