2025-1 Red List: more than 1,000 fungi species now on the Red List highlight threats from deforestation, agriculture and urban development. Frankincense trees face increasing extinction risk, and more than 100 Green Status assessments show the impact of conservation efforts.

Currently, there are more than 169,000 species on The IUCN Red List, with more than 47,000 species threatened with extinction, including 44% of reef building corals, 41% of amphibians, 38% of trees, 37% of sharks and rays, 34% of conifers, 26% of mammals, 26% of freshwater fishes and 12% of birds.

The IUCN Red List records 'last seen' dates for species assessed as Extinct (EX), Extinct in the Wild (EW), and for Critically Endangered species flagged as Possibly Extinct (CR(PE)) or Possibly Extinct in the Wild (CR(PEW)).

2025-1 Red List: more than 1,000 fungi species now on the Red List highlight threats from deforestation, agriculture and urban development. Frankincense trees face increasing extinction risk, and more than 100 Green Status assessments show the impact of conservation efforts.

The IUCN Red List shows us where and what actions need to be taken to save the building blocks of nature from extinction. It provides a straightforward way to factor biodiversity needs into decision-making processes by providing a wealth of useful information on species.

This includes an update of overall figures for the number of threatened species, good news stories, and the status of specific groups of species on The IUCN Red List. All media enquiries about IUCN Red List updates and press releases are handled by the IUCN Press Centre.

The data held on The IUCN Red List includes non-threatened as well as threatened species, and some taxonomic groups have been completely, or almost completely assessed, including mammals, birds, amphibians, freshwater crabs, warm-water reef-building corals, sharks and rays, groupers, wrasses, lobsters, freshwater fishes, cephalapods ...

The RLI is one way of representing information on the status of biodiversity from The IUCN Red List. Complementary measures include the proportion of species that are threatened with extinction (as illustrated, for example, in Díaz et al. 2019), and the proportion of species that have declining trends. More broadly, the trends in extinction ...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the most comprehensive compendium of information on the global conservation status of animal, plant and fungi species. Systematically collated, the IUCN Red List showcases the changing state of life on earth

The IUCN Red List is more than just a list of species names and Red List Categories. It is a compendium of information detailing the current extinction risk for the animal, fungus and plant species that have been assessed to date.