Illegal trade contributes to placing cacti among world's most threatened species
Monday, October 5, 2015 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Thirty-one percent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, published today in the journal Nature Plants. This places cacti among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - more threatened than mammals and birds.