Biodiversité

Here, we develop a mechanism using the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species to identify species that are likely to be threatened by international trade. Of 2,211 such species, CITES includes 59% (1,307 species), leaving two-fifths overlooked and in potential need of international trade regulation. Our results can inform deliberations on potential proposals to revise trade measures for species at CITES Conference of the Parties meetings.

For 50 years, the IUCN Commissions, Secretariat, Members such as BirdLife International and partners such as UNEP-WCMC have been mobilising biodiversity and conservation knowledge products, which are fundamentally important for tracking progress towards 10 of the 20 Aichi Targets, and should similarly become so for seven of the emerging 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Le débat sur des critères de tri des animaux et des végétaux à préserver anime les scientifiques.

Selon les chiffres du comité français de l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN), la France figure parmi les dix pays hébergeant le plus grand nombre d'espèces menacées (2.430), un tiers dans l'Hexagone et deux tiers outre-mer. "