Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction — 1,000 more than last year, according to an international conservation organization. On Thursday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature released its Red List of Threatened Species, which now lists 45,300 species threatened with extinction. More than 163,000 species were accessed this year.The organization says the IUCN Red List is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity.
Further habitat loss from agriculture , timber plantations, mining, and major infrastructure projects such as the Pan Borneo Highway further threaten the future of Bornean elephants. Poaching for ivory, accidental ingestion of agrochemicals, and vehicle collisions are also concerns.In a contrasting tale, conservation efforts have revived the Iberian lynx from the brink of extinction, with the population increasing from 62 mature individuals in 2001 to 648 in 2022 and more than 2,000 now.