The World Conservation Union
Mission to ensure integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable
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03.11.2009
Alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure to halt biodiversity loss is sounded today by the latest "Red List" of Threatened Species.
more...Image: World Conservation Union Red List
25.06.2009
More than 32 per cent of open ocean sharks and rays are threatened with extinction, primarily due to overfishing, according to a new study.
more...Image: Oceanic whitetip / Simon Rogerson
11.11.2008
A quarter of sharks, rays and chimaeras are threatened with extinction and another 20 per cent are in the near threatened category, according to a new Red List of threatened species.
more...Image: Porbeagle shark. Global Red List Assessment: Vulnerable; Sub-population Red List assessment for the Northeast Atlantic: Critically Endangered (Photo: Steven Campana )
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