According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the most authoritative inventory of the status of the world’s biodiversity, 830 species have gone extinct since 1600.
“The trouble is, the Red List mostly captures the status of vertebrates, especially birds and mammals. But 99 percent of all animal species are invertebrates, and only a tiny fraction of these have been assessed according to Red List criteria.”
Sourced through Scoop.it from: conservationmagazine.org
One of the conclusions we can draw from this article is that our knowledge of what’s happening in the real world is terribly inadequate. We need on-the-ground intensive surveys followed by detailed analyses. Of course, surveys do nothing to save species. Saving life on Earth require reducing our population, eliminating our pollution of the air, land, and water, and correcting our behavior to find our balance with nature.