Deep-Sea Mining Threatens 60% of Vent Species: IUCN
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More than 49,500 species of world fauna and flora are threatened with extinction, equivalent to 28% of 175,909 assessed International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the main global authority on the state of nature conservation
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports this Thursday, July 9, that gastropods and other invertebrates "are among the most threatened groups of animals" by searching for precious minerals.
Human behavior endangers the survival of numerous animal species, both in the deep sea and in the desert. The new Red List includes nearly 50,000 species threatened with extinction.
After 60 years without being seen alive, five marsupials are officially extinct from now on in Australia, according to the latest update of the Red List of Species made by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These are unique specimens, the result of isolation of the territory, such as the marsupial rat of crept tail and the small betong. Its disappearance is no exception: it thickens a list of 40 species recently extin…
Deep-sea mining threatens 60% of vent species: IUCN
More than 60% of the rare mollusc species living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents face extinction from proposed seabed mining, prompting the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to renew... The post Deep-sea mining threatens 60% of vent species: IUCN appeared first on The Northern Miner.
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