Question

Animals are vanishing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking

habitats. Their biggest threat: humans.

Since 1964, when the IUCN established a “red list” of threatened species and began

compiling data gathered worldwide, the list has become the pre-eminent global database of

endangered life and an essential tool for conservation policy. Yet the IUCN has been able to

assess only about 106,000 species of the more than 1.5 million species of animals and more

than 300,000 plants that scientists have described and named—which they estimate is less

than a quarter of what‟s really out there. A recent inter governmental report on the

biodiversity crisis estimated that extinction threatens up to a million animal and plant

species, known and unknown. The IUCN hopes to raise the number of species assessments to

160,000 by 2020. Next up on its agenda: a “green list” of conservation successes. It will be

much shorter than the red one.

What is the next agenda of government?

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Answer 1

Answer: Human activities are to blame: Pollution, farming, and deforestation are destroying natural habitats. According to a new report from the United Nations, up to 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, many within decades

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