Threatened species

The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of European species according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level, so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status. This publication summarizes results for all described native European marine fishes.

A brioflora de Portugal Continental integra um total de 704 taxa (incluindo espécies, subespécies e algumas variedades consideradas taxonomicamente importantes). Compreende cerca de 40% das espécies europeias e quase 65% de todos os briófitos ibéricos sendo estes organismos indicados como um dos grupos de plantas mais antigo, com grande importância ecológica, fundamentais para a manutenção da biodiversidade dos ecossistemas.

O CNCFlora lançou o primeiro "Livro Vermelho da Flora do Brasil". A publicação científica reúne avaliações sobre o risco de extinção de espécies de plantas no país e representa uma contribuição da comunidade científica para a atualização da “Lista Oficial de Espécies da Flora Brasileira Ameaçadas de Extinção”, que está a cargo do Ministério do Meio Ambiente.

The potential for numerous amphibian species to go extinct in Oaxaca and Chiapas is high and worthy of being considered a major environmental problem. This report summarizes the findings of a project aimed at gathering information at 16 sites in southern Mexico which had been identified in 2005 as being essential to the continued existence of 22 highly threatened amphibian species, the hope being that it could help initiate conservation action.

As the need increases for sound estimates of impending rates of animal and plant species extinction, scientists must have a firm grounding in the qualitative and quantitative methods required to make the best possible predictions. Extinction Rates offers the most wide-ranging and practical introduction to those methods available.

Red Lists are recognised scientific inventories which indicate the extinction risk of species. This report compiles and analyses all of the data from the existing Swiss Red Lists of threatened plants, animals and fungi. A number of specific analyses provide new insights into the status and spatial distribution of threatened species as well as into the nature of the threats they are affected by. Red List projects are coordinated by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).

Les listes rouges se basent sur une procédure d'évaluation des menaces scientifiquement reconnue pour répertorier les espèces indigènes menacées plus ou moins gravement d'extinction. Le présent rapport constitue une synthèse de l'ensemble des listes rouges suisses des espèces végétales, animales et fongiques. Plusieurs analyses ciblées apportent un nouvel éclairage sur l'état et la répartition géographique d'espèces menacées et sur les menaces elles-mêmes.