Coming Soon: Red List of Threatened Ecosystems
Wildlife Trust, an international conservation organization, has announced that the IUCN has accepted its motion to create the first ever criteria for a Red List of threatened ecosystems.
The motion was put forward at the recent World Conservation Congress in Barcelona by the Wildlife Trust Alliance.
What this means is that, standardized criteria for categorizing terrestrial ecosystems would be established. It would allow ecosystems to be assessed in the same way threatened species are assessed for the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species.
“Creating a Red List for endangered ecosystems goes hand-in-hand with the need to protect at-risk species that live in such areas as the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, South Africa’s grasslands, and Indonesian lowland tropical forest,” said Dr. Mary C. Pearl, President of Wildlife Trust.
And Dr. Andrew Taber, Executive Vice President of Programs for Wildlife Trust, says ”Helping society better understand levels of risks to the ecosystems we depend on opens the door to creating sustainable solutions we can all adopt”.
Source: Wildlife Trust
Tags: Conservation, ecosystems, red list, threatened species
