Extinction Crisis
October 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
A study just publicized by the IUCN confirms that there is a current global extinction crisis with one-fifth of our world’s vertebrate (backboned) animal species threatened. The study used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to investigate how the populations of mammals, birds, amphibia...
Tags: biodiversity, black footed ferret, Conservation, crisis, E O Wilson, extinction, IUCN, Nagoya, Red List
September 22nd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Susie Hill in Humanitarian
Valerie Amos, the United Nations’ new under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, is pushing for a new strategy in...
Tags: crisis, flood, funding, Humanitarian, Pakistan, response, UN, Valerie Amos
