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'Red list' of threatened species due

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October 10, 2025

The world's top conservation body opened its world congress yesterday in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi and will unveil its updated "red list" of threatened species.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), whose decisions help set the global agenda on environmental protection, will today publish its list ranking at-risk plant and animal species from "least concern" to "extinct".

The congress, held every four years, sheds light on the dire state of the world's biodiversity. An increasing number of animals suffer from the destruction of their natural habitat, climate change, and water, air and soil pollution.

According to the United Nations's expert scientific panel on biodiversity (IPBES), biodiversity has declined every decade in the past 30 to 50 years.

The IUCN congress last convened in the French city of Marseille in 2021.

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