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Captive breeding is the process of breeding rare or endangered species in human controlled environments with restricted settings, such as wildlife reserves, zoos, and other conservation facilities. Captive breeding is meant to save species from extinction and so stabilise the population of the species that it will not disappear. [43]
The illegal wildlife trade is the illegal trading of plants and wildlife. This illegal trading is worth an estimate of 7-23 billion [30] and an annual trade of around 100 million plants and animals. [31] In 2021 it was found that this trade has caused a 60% decline in species abundance, and 80% for endangered species. [31]
This list is of Red Lists, Red Data Books, and related initiatives that assess and document the extinction risk of species, whether on an international or more local level (regional Red Lists). The IUCN has published a set of Guidelines for Application of the IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels and at least 113 countries have ...
The front cover of the CD-ROM box set edition of Last Chance to See for computers running Windows 3.1 or later. The Voyager Company also published a two CD-ROM set (for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Macintosh System 6 ), in 1992, featuring over 800 still photographs, Adams reading the nearly complete book, Carwardine reading fact files on the ...
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
The history of the Red Books can be traced back to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which conceived the idea in the 1960s.The Red Data Book was created as a comprehensive tool to assess and document species at risk of extinction.
The first country to pursue aggressive biological conservation through national legislation was the United States, which passed back to back legislation in the Endangered Species Act [65] (1966) and National Environmental Policy Act (1970), [66] which together injected major funding and protection measures to large-scale habitat protection and ...