Most coral reef sharks and rays may be at risk of extinction, UBC study says

Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, a new study in Nature Communications co-authored by the Sea Around Us’ Project Manager and Q-quatics’ Science Director Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares shows. The results suggest that the extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays,…

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New IUCN Red List of Threatened Species released, almost half of extinct species are endemic to Lake Lanao (PH)

The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published recently and contains 128,918 species of which more than 35,500 species, comprising 28% of all assessed species, are threatened with extinction.   Thirty-one (31) species are now declared Extinct. Almost half of these are endemic to Lake Lanao, the largest lake in…

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