A Global Species Assessment

Edited by Jonathan E.M. Baillie, Craig Hilton-Taylor and Simon N. Stuart

Authors Jonathan E.M. Baillie, Leon A. Bennun, Thomas M. Brooks, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Janice S. Chanson, Zoe Cokeliss, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Michael Hoffmann, Georgina M. Mace, Sue A. Mainka, Caroline M. Pollock, Ana S.L. Rodrigues, Alison J. Stattersfield and Simon N. Stuart

Cover photos: © Robert Puschendorf, Anthony G. Miller, Dai G. Herbert, John E. Randall, Jack Jeffrey Photography and Troy Inman (see inside back cover for details). Cover design: McHale Ward Associates, Ware, UK DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2005.3.en ISBN: 2-8317-0826-5

The IUCN Species Survival Commission 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ IUCN - The World Conservation Union 2004

Errata

Foreword

Information for This Title

Front Cover Photographs

Contributions to the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™

Preface

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

Section 1. Introduction

Section 2. Globally Threatened Species

Section 3. Extinctions in Recent Time

Section 4. Trends in the Status of Threatened Species

Section 5. Geography of the Red List

Section 6. The Many Causes of Threat

Section 7. The Social and Economic Context of the Red List

Section 8. Conservation Responses

Section 9. Conclusions

Section 10. References

Appendices

     Appendix 1: The IUCN Red List Programme

     Appendix 2: Methodology

     Appendix 3. Summary Data