Nearly 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human Activity

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By Jordan DavidsonJul 22, 2019, 12:25 pm244 pts
The statistics around threatened species are looking grim. A new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added more than 9,000 new additions to its Red List of threatened species, pushing the total number of species on the list to more than 105,000 for the first time, according…

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