{"id":8202,"date":"2019-07-19T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:34:52","slug":"7000-species-added-to-iucn-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7000-species-added-to-iucn-red-list\/","title":{"rendered":"7,000 species added to IUCN \u2018Red List\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>International Union for the Conservation of\nNature (IUCN) has updated its Red List. The list has assessed the extinction\nrisk of almost 106,000 species. <\/li><li>27% of the assessed species are threatened and\nat a risk of extinction. More than 7,000 species from around the world were\nadded to the endangered category of the Red List in the latest update.<\/li><li>According to IUCN, Wedgefishes and giant\nguitarfishes, known collectively as Rhino Rays are now the most imperilled marine\nfish families on Earth.<\/li><li>Further, seven species of primate are closer to\nextinction on the new list, including the Roloway Monkey of Cote d\u2019Ivoire and\nGhana.<\/li><li>The Red List, produced by the IUCN, is the most\nauthoritative assessment of the status of species. <\/li><li>There are 9 categories in the Red List: a) Extinct,\nb) Extinct in the Wild, c) Critically Endangered, d) Endangered, e) Vulnerable,\nf) Near Threatened, g) Least Concern, h) Data Deficient and i) Not Evaluated. <\/li><li>Among the categories, Critically Endangered\n(CR), Endangered (EN) and Vulnerable (VU) species are considered to be\nthreatened with extinction<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has updated its Red List. The list has assessed the extinction risk of almost 106,000 species. 27% of the assessed species are threatened and at a risk of extinction. More than 7,000 species from around the world were added to the endangered category of the Red List&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7000-species-added-to-iucn-red-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7,000 species added to IUCN \u2018Red List\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4558],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-iucn-red-list","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700789524,"cached_date":1704913564},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}