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Threatened Species: An Alert of Red List from IUCN

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organization was established in 1964 to safeguard our natural species information details. This organization helps to identify the species when these are diminished due to abnormal issues in environmental forces or evolutionary changes in their population numbers. IUCN was recommended the information on the global risk status of plants, fungus, and animal species [1] . Overall world, the term “Biodiversity” and their conservation progress is an attentive one. As per IUCN, the announced Red List shows a critical condition of the world’s natural biodiversity. The major part of assessments representing on the Red List (in IU CN) are accounted out by following government/non-government members:  Species Survival Commission  (SSC).  Red List Partners .  Red List Authorities  (RLAs).  O ther specialists (who working on assessment projects).  It gives information about the probable range, habitat, populat...

Imagination on Transformative Future Biodiversity

The world has changed. Posited to be a ‘super year’ for biodiversity with various international meetings and the conclusion of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s ten-year Aichi Targets, 2020 will be remembered for very different reasons: catastrophic fires, the COVID-19 pandemic, floods, locust outbreaks, a drastic drop in oil prices and widespread food insecurity. These disruptions will increase the already considerable gap between rich and poor, hitting marginalized groups - the impoverished, women, Indigenous communities and people of color - much harder. Impacts on the environment have been mixed: carbon emissions may be down, but there are growing concerns that nature will be forgotten in the rush to rebuild devastated economies. -- Carina Wyborn , Australian National University, Australia. The biodiversity community from the researchers, citizens, local knowledge holders, practitioners and decision makers concerned with the natural world and its relationship with people ar...