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- What is Catalogue of Life? | COL
After more than 260 years of effort building on the foundations laid by Linnaeus, scientists currently recognise around two million species, but the number of published scientific names is much higher
- UN Report: Natures Dangerous Decline Unprecedented . . .
The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history
- Scientists call for biodiversity barometer - IUCN
For the first time scientists have put a figure on how much it would cost to learn about the conservation status of millions of species, some of which have yet to be identified The price tag is US$60 million, according to a team of scientists, including those from IUCN and Conservation International, who presented their case in this week’s Science magazine in an article called “The
- Biodiversity loss accelerates with 1 million species at risk . . .
Species loss is accelerating to a rate tens or hundreds of times faster than in the past, according to the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity
- What Is Biodiversity? - Smithsonian National Museum of . . .
Current estimates are of about 10 million species on Earth, of which only about 1 9 million have been named and catalogued Scientists race to catalog species before they go extinct An "endemic" species occurs in a particular area and nowhere else
- Species Extinction Happening 1,000 Times Faster Because of . . .
Scientists have identified at least 1 9 million animal species, and possibly millions more have yet to be named And according to the study, at least 450,000 plant species likely exist
- Meet the New Species - Smithsonian Magazine
Scientists estimate the total number of plant and animal species in the world at 10 million to 50 million—but they have so far described only about 1 9 million
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