What is the Red List of IUCN Endangered Species? What is the content? How to understand?

IUCN said that the update of the list reevaluated the seven species of tuna with the largest commercial catch and found that four of them showed signs of recovery. This is mainly due to the introduction of more sustainable quotas and the successful crackdown on illegal fishing. Michael Aberg, Director-General of IUCN, said, "This shows that the number of threatened species can be recovered if countries are truly committed to sustainable practices.

Sound the alarm! The Red List of Endangered Species is published! Giraffes will die quietly, but the latest Red List also says that 37% of shark and ray species are threatened. All these populations are facing overfishing, while other populations are also affected by habitat loss and destruction and climate change. Sound the alarm! The Red List of Endangered Species is published! Giraffes will also die quietly. At the same time, Komodo Dragon, which only lives in Indonesia, has been upgraded from "fragile" to "endangered" due to the threat of climate change. According to IUCN, sea level rise caused by global warming may reduce the suitable habitat of Komodo dragons by at least 30% in the next 45 years.

Sound the alarm! The Red List of Endangered Species is published! Giraffes will also quietly go extinct. Ricardo, director of communication department of IUCN: There are rhinoceros, white rhinoceros and black rhinoceros on the list of endangered species. These large species have lost many habitats and become victims of poaching. A species that was not threatened until a few years ago-giraffe-may be quietly extinct. China is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity, but it is also one of the countries with the most serious threats to biodiversity. On the one hand, over-utilization of resources, habitat loss and degradation, environmental pollution and climate change caused by human activities have affected the survival of species. On the other hand, some foreign institutions continue to collect China's biological resources through scientific research cooperation or other forms, which makes China's biological resources and information face greater risk of loss.

Without a comprehensive understanding of the threats to wildlife resources in China, there is a lack of systematic, scientific and targeted biodiversity protection measures. Therefore, with the support of the State Environmental Protection Agency, China began to compile the red book in the 1980s, based on the rating standards of the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species (hereinafter referred to as "IUCN Red List"), and made some modifications according to the national conditions.