IUCN’s Green Status of Species

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which is a global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, is coming up with new Global measure called Green Status of Species that provides information about the ecological functionality of a species within its range, and also how much a species has recovered due to conservation efforts.
IUCN already has a Red List of Threatened Species. To know more about it, read at https://officerspulse.com/kerala-to-update-red-list-of-animals-birds/
It will provide more clear picture of what’s going on with a species and which will be important for conservation planning and also measuring and celebrating the impact of past conservation
The IUCN Green Status will classify species into nine recovery categories that will use historical population levels to indicate if a species has been largely depleted from its range or if it is nearing recovery.

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Nine species recovery categories are: not evaluated, indeterminate, fully recovered, slightly depleted, moderately depleted, largely depleted, critically depleted, extinct in the wild and extinct.
In a pilot study on 180 species, Fifty-nine percent of tested species were considered largely or critically depleted.
The assessment framework will also measure the impact of past conservation efforts, species’ reliance on conservation action, and how much a species could gain in the next 10 years due to conservation action. It also offers a long-term view of species’ recovery potential over the next 100 years. The new framework can help incentivize conservation action.
Less than 2% of the surveyed species had a conservation impact metric of zero, which indicates “that conservation has, or will, play a role in improving or maintaining species status for the vast majority of these species,” the authors write in the paper.
The IUCN Green Status of Species will be integrated into the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, which will then provide a fuller picture of species’ conservation status including both their extinction risk and recovery progress. It will an optimistic view of where we want to go with species conservation
The IUCN Green Status will be officially launched online at the start of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which will take place in Marseille, France, from Sept. 3-11, 2021.

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