SOS on fast disappearing species
The 2011 update of the Global Red List of Threatened Species that was released on June 16 highlights the prevailing crisis.
According to the latest report 707 species are already extinct, 64 extinct in the wild and 3,801 critically endangered on a global scale. The loss of biodiversity has become one of the world’s most pressing environment crises, with many species falling to critically low levels. Many species are becoming extinct unnoticed, and the number of species classified as Critically Endangered (those facing the most severe risk of becoming extinct) are increasing, the report states.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN )Red List of Threatened Species (or the IUCN Red List) is the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It is based on a system that assesses the risk of extinction.
Species are assigned to one of eight categories of threat based on whether they meet the criteria linked to population trend, population size and structure and geographic range. Species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable are collectively described as ‘Threatened’. So according to the latest update, over 19,000 species are threatened out of 59,508 assessed species.
Estimates from the IUCN Red List indicate that extinctions take place at anytime from 100 to 1,000 times the ‘background’ or natural rate. The causes for extinction include habitat destruction, land conversion for agriculture and development, climate change, pollution, illegal wildlife trade, and the spread of invasive species.
The Global IUCN Red List also includes review of conservation status of many species that inhabit Sri Lanka. Globally assessed species occurring in Sri Lanka as per the latest update indicate 22 Extinct, 137 Critically Endangered and 164 Endangered. However, this global assessment took to account only 2065 species in Sri Lanka.
What was published this week was the Red List update on a Global Scale and every country processes its own assessment to evaluate the species vulnerabilities to extinction on a national level. In Sri Lanka, the Biodiversity Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment conducted this study with the assistance of key scientists.The head of this unit, Gamini Gamage said the current study covered more groups of animals and plants than the previous National Red Llist evaluation completed in 2007. He is positive that the latest update of the National Red List too can be released within this year, as most of the reviewing meetings were completed.
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Because of this, threatened categories even of some of the endemic species could be different from the global assessment. For example, the Sri Lanka Spiny Mouse (Mus fernandoni) categorized in the National List as a Critically Endangered species is
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The group's anger lies with the Singapore company Asian Pulp & Paper (APP), which Greenpeace accuses of clearcutting rain forests and destroying endangered species' habitats. So to make its point, Greenpeace put together an animated video where Ken
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