Explain the following: (a) IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List: It is a catalog of taxa that are facing the risk of extinction. The uses of the red list are: developing awareness about the threat of loss of biodiversity identification and documentation of endangered species providing a global index of the decline of biodiversity defining conservation. IUCN has recognized eight red list categories of species. They are: Extinct Extinct in wild Critically endangered Endangered Vulnerable Lower risk Data deficient and Not evaluated. The 2000 red list contains an assessment of more than 18,000 species, 11,000 of which are threatened.
