[Birding-Aus] Analysis of 2008 IUCN Red List released

[Paul Dodd]

Some depressing reading as the IUCN have released their 4-yearly analysis of
the Red List yesterday. See
http://www.iucn.org/news_events/?3460/Wildlife-crisis-worse-than-economic-cr
isis--IUCN for the press release and
http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/RL-2009-001.pdf for the report itself.

Some salient points:

The 2010 international governments' targets on reducing biodiversity loss
will not be met

1 in 3 amphibian, 1 in 4 mammal and 1 in 8 bird species worldwide are
threatened with extinction

In Australia, 24 of our 299 endemic bird species are threatened

Paul Dodd

Docklands, Victoria

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