Criteria for 'Red list' of endangered ecosystems released
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
By Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanetWith many of the world's ecosystems threatened or endangered by human activities like logging and urbanization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published its criteria for a new "Red List" of endangered ecosystems Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.The list, which measures an ecosystem's risk of collapse, will be similar to the group's aut...