Authors
Michael Hoffmann, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Ariadne Angulo, Monika Böhm, Thomas M Brooks, Stuart HM Butchart, Kent E Carpenter, Janice Chanson, Ben Collen, Neil A Cox, William RT Darwall, Nicholas K Dulvy, Lucy R Harrison, Vineet Katariya, Caroline M Pollock, Suhel Quader, Nadia I Richman, Ana SL Rodrigues, Marcelo F Tognelli, Jean-Christophe Vié, John M Aguiar, David J Allen, Gerald R Allen, Giovanni Amori, Natalia B Ananjeva, Franco Andreone, Paul Andrew, Aida Luz Aquino Ortiz, Jonathan EM Baillie, Ricardo Baldi, Ben D Bell, SD Biju, Jeremy P Bird, Patricia Black-Decima, J Julian Blanc, Federico Bolaños, Wilmar Bolivar-G, Ian J Burfield, James A Burton, David R Capper, Fernando Castro, Gianluca Catullo, Rachel D Cavanagh, Alan Channing, Ning Labbish Chao, Anna M Chenery, Federica Chiozza, Viola Clausnitzer, Nigel J Collar, Leah C Collett, Bruce B Collette, Claudia F Cortez Fernandez, Matthew T Craig, Michael J Crosby, Neil Cumberlidge, Annabelle Cuttelod, Andrew E Derocher, Arvin C Diesmos, John S Donaldson, JW Duckworth, Guy Dutson, SK Dutta, Richard H Emslie, Aljos Farjon, Sarah Fowler, Jörg Freyhof, David L Garshelis, Justin Gerlach, David J Gower, Tandora D Grant, Geoffrey A Hammerson, Richard B Harris, Lawrence R Heaney, S Blair Hedges, Jean-Marc Hero, Baz Hughes, Syed Ainul Hussain, Javier Icochea M, Robert F Inger, Nobuo Ishii, Djoko T Iskandar, Richard KB Jenkins, Yoshio Kaneko, Maurice Kottelat, Kit M Kovacs, Sergius L Kuzmin, Enrique La Marca, John F Lamoreux, Michael WN Lau, Esteban O Lavilla, Kristin Leus, Rebecca L Lewison, Gabriela Lichtenstein, Suzanne R Livingstone, Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, David P Mallon, Philip JK McGowan, Anna McIvor, Patricia D Moehlman, Sanjay Molur, Antonio Muñoz Alonso, John A Musick, Kristin Nowell, Ronald A Nussbaum, Wanda Olech, Nikolay L Orlov, Theodore J Papenfuss, Gabriela Parra-Olea, William F Perrin, Beth A Polidoro, Mohammad Pourkazemi, Paul A Racey, James S Ragle, Mala Ram, Galen Rathbun, Robert P Reynolds, Anders GJ Rhodin, Stephen J Richards, Lily O Rodríguez, Santiago R Ron, Carlo Rondinini, Anthony B Rylands, Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson, Jonnell C Sanciangco, Kate L Sanders, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Jan Schipper, Caryn Self-Sullivan, Yichuan Shi, Alan Shoemaker, Frederick T Short, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Débora L Silvano, Kevin G Smith, Andrew T Smith, Jos Snoeks, Alison J Stattersfield, Andrew J Symes, Andrew B Taber, Bibhab K Talukdar, Helen J Temple, Rob Timmins, Joseph A Tobias, Katerina Tsytsulina, Denis Tweddle, Carmen Ubeda, Sarah V Valenti, Peter Paul van Dijk, Liza M Veiga, Alberto Veloso
Publication date
2010/12/10
Journal
science
Volume
330
Issue
6010
Pages
1503-1509
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Using data for 25,780 species categorized on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, we present an assessment of the status of the world’s vertebrates. One-fifth of species are classified as Threatened, and we show that this figure is increasing: On average, 52 species of mammals, birds, and amphibians move one category closer to extinction each year. However, this overall pattern conceals the impact of conservation successes, and we show that the rate of deterioration would have been at least one-fifth again as much in the absence of these. Nonetheless, current conservation efforts remain insufficient to offset the main drivers of biodiversity loss in these groups: agricultural expansion, logging, overexploitation, and invasive alien species.
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