Adapt or die

Scientists warn that animals on the endangered list are monitored to extinction.

With over 70,000 known species of animals and plants on our planet, it’s dreadful to think that nearly a third of them are under threat. Yet, even the numbers of giant pandas, known to decline drastically before 1970 to about 1,000, have risen by only 17% in the past decade.

The Red List compiled by the International Union for Conservation in Nature (IUCN) includes 7,781 species on the endangered list and 5,210 on the critically endangered list. A handy infographic available here was shared by the IUCN, detailing the extent of the threat.