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Rodriguez, J.P.
The difference conservation can make: integrating knowledge to reduce extinction risk
2016 Oryx (51): 1-2
The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is a unique network of 10,000 expert volunteers from almost every country. Grouped into c. 140 specialist groups of taxonomic expertise and cross-cutting disciplines, one of the major tasks undertaken, in collaboration with the IUCN Global Species Programme, is the continuous update and publication of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Not really a list and not only about threatened species, it is an extensive database of information across taxa, from those not currently threatened to those that are extinct in the wild. The Red List includes data on species' geographical distributions, population structure and trends, habitat and ecology, and threats and conservation actions proposed or taken. To date, nearly 83,000 species have been assessed, 29% of which are categorized as threatened. IUCN aims to assess a total of 160,000 species for the Red List by 2020.
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