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Bookmark or Share- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - BritannicaIUCN Red List of Threatened Species, objective assessment system for classifying the status of plants, animals, and other organisms threatened with extinction. Unveiled in 1994, the list contains criteria and categories to classify species on the basis of their probability of extinction.
- About IUCNIUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is a membership Union of government and civil society organisations. Together, we work to advance sustainable development and create a just world that values and conserves nature.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesCurrently, there are more than 166,000 species on The IUCN Red List, with more than 46,300 species threatened with extinction, including 44% of reef building corals, 41% of amphibians, 38% of trees, 37% of sharks and rays, 34% of conifers, 26% of mammals, 26% of freshwater fishes and 12% of birds.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesThe IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. It divides species into nine categories: Not Evaluated, Data Deficient, Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered, Extinct in the Wild and Extinct.
- Nigroboletus roseonigrescensNigroboletus roseonigrescens is a bolete known from south-eastern China. The species was described in 2015 from 2 locations in the Guangdong Province, but it is thought to be common and a wider distribution is likely.
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