The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort.

ABSTRACT: In the Mediterranean Basin, a critical focal point for the conservation of plant diversity, there has been a large increase in practical conservation actions for many plant species to prevent extinction and to improve their conservation status; quantifying the effectiveness of these initiatives in reversing species declines is urgently important. In 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched a new tool that allows the impact of conservation actions on plant species to be assessed. The Green Status of Species is a new set of metrics under the Red List of Threatened Species that assigns species to recovery categories, complementary to the classic extinction risk categories. Crucially, the Green Status of Species provides methods to evaluate the impact of past co

SUBMITTER: Cogoni D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9572627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature