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Wildlife on Earth is under serious threat, despite the commitment by world leaders to reverse the trend, according to a detailed analysis of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) analysis, which is published every four years, comes just before the deadline governments set themselves to evaluate how successful they were in achieving the 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss.
The IUCN report, Wildlife in a Changing World, shows that the 2010 target will not be met.
The report analyses 44,838 species on the IUCN Red List and presents results by groups of species, geographical regions, and different habitats, such as marine, freshwater and terrestrial.
It reports that there are, “869 species are Extinct or Extinct the Wild and this figure rises to 1,159 if the 290 critically endangered species tagged as possibly extinct are included. Overall, a minimum of 16,928 species are threatened with extinction.
The report shows that a broad range of marine species are experiencing potentially irreversible loss due to over-fishing, climate change, invasive species, coastal development and pollution.
A dim picture of shark stocks is portrayed by IUCN.
At least 17 per cent of the 1,045 shark and ray species.
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