Conserving Threatened Species - News
One in six European mammals threatened with extinction shows new assessment by the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
The first assessment of all European mammals, carried out by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that nearly one in every six mammal species is now threatened with extinction. Europe is now home to the world’s most threatened cat species, the Iberian Lynx, and the world’s most threatened seal, the Mediterranean Monk Seal. …
22 May 2007 | News story
Saving western gray whales - IUCN release summary brochure on the conservation project for the critically endangered western gray whale population
Business has joined forces with the World Conservation
Union (IUCN) to better understand the biology of
and threats to western gray whales. The purpose of
this broad engagement is to do everything possible
to ensure the survival and recovery of this population. …
21 May 2007 | News story
Oil business and conservation work to protect Western Pacific Gray Whales
Sakhalin Energy and the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), have agreed to work together on seismic surveys and oil spill prevention. These are some of the biggest threats to the critically endangered Western Gray Whales from the oil and gas development in the whales’ feeding area, off Sakhalin island. …
27 Apr 2007 | News story
Twenty coral reef fishes threatened with extinction
Twenty species of grouper, a globally important group of 162 coral reef food fishes, are threatened with extinction unless management or conservation measures are introduced. …
06 Mar 2007 | News story
Is the Vaquita porpoise extinct?
Cetacean experts of IUCN’s Species Survivial Commission are meeting this week to review the status of the world’s whales, dolphins and porpoises. …
24 Jan 2007 | News story
