How endangered species have fared in 2025 — and what new ones made the list

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

Christmas Island Shrew and Slender-Billed Curlew Among the 'Sobering' Number of Animals Declared Extinct in 2025

This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ...
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IUCN red list categories / prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, as approved by the 40th meeting of the IUCN Council, Gland, Switzerland, 30 November 1994

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All West Coast Abalones at Risk of Extinction on the IUCN Red List

A red abalone is surrounded by a barren of purple sea urchins. (Katie Sowul/California Department of Fish and Wildlife) All seven of the United States’ abalone species that live on the West Coast are ...
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Why the global Red List mislabels the risk to many species

Mark D Scherz is a member of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group for Madagascar On the Red List, species are given a rank on a scale of least concern (no conservation action needed), near ...