Wildlife
Crisis Worse than Economic Crisis - IUCN (Jul
2, 2009) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
A detailed analysis of the IUCN Red
List of Threatened Species, "Wildlife
in a Changing World: An Analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red
List of Threatened Species" has just been published. Results from
the report shows nearly one third of amphibians, more than one in eight
birds and nearly a quarter of mammals are threatened with extinction. Overall,
a minimum of 16,928 species are threatened with extinction. Invasive species
are one of the threats leading to extinctions.
