Red Book project manager Craig Hilton-Taylor said: “The Red Book recovery is not all about bad news, there are some good stories too, showing that if we do the right things, we can save species. We can make a difference, restore species and prevent their extinction.”
As a positive example, the oryx antelope, which was once widespread in North Africa, almost disappeared at the end of the last century.
More than 200 babies were born last year, and the species was moved from the “extinct” category to the “threatened” category. Another antelope – the saiga population in Central Asia was even more successfully restored, and up to two million individuals live in the wild. However, most attention is paid to more than 157 thousand endangered species, and the situation is significantly worsened by climate change.
This also applies to aquatic inhabitants, and there is concern about the Atlantic salmon, whose isolated population lives in the Baltic Sea. The number of these fish has decreased by 23 percent in 15 years, and the species has been moved from the non-threatened category to the near-threatened category.
A quarter of the nearly 15,000 estimated freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction worldwide.
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2023-12-13 07:07:31
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