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IUCN Red List Media Releases

IUCN issues media releases for selected updates of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

Current media release

2025-1 – March 2025: First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish).

2024-2 – October 2024: More than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish). November 2024: Over 40% of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)
2024-1 – June 2024: Bornean elephant Endangered - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish). June 2024: Iberian lynx rebounding thanks to conservation action - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish).

2023-1 – December 2023: Freshwater fish highlight escalating climate impacts on species - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)

2022-2 – December 2022: Human activity devastating marine species from mammals to corals - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)
2022-1 – July 2022: Migratory monarch butterfly now Endangered - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)

2021-3 – December 2021: Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Dutch / Japanese)
2021-2 – September 2021: Tuna species recovering despite growing pressures on marine life - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Japanese)
2021-1 – March 2021: African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Japanese)

2020-3 – December 2020: European bison recovering, 31 species declared Extinct – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Dutch /Japanese / Russian)
2020-2 – July 2020: Almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whale now Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Japanese)
2020-1 – March 2020: Conservation efforts bring cautious hope for African rhinos - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Japanese)

2019-3 – December 2019: Species recoveries bring hope amidst the biodiversity crisis - IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Japanese)
2019-2 – July 2019: Unsustainable fishing and hunting for bushmeat driving iconic species to extinction – IUCN Red List (English)

2018-2 – November 2018: Fin Whale, Mountain Gorilla recovering thanks to conservation action – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish /Japanese / R ussian)
2018-1 – July 2018: Australia’s reptiles threatened by invasive species, climate change – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)

2017-3 – December 2017: Unsustainable food systems threaten wild crop and dolphin species – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish /Japanese)
2017-2 – September 2017: Once-abundant ash tree and antelope species face extinction – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)

2016-3 – December 2016: New bird species and giraffe under threat – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)
2016-2 – September 2016: Four out of six great apes one step away from extinction – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish)
2016-1 – July 2016: Whale sharks, winghead sharks and Bornean orangutans slide towards extinction (English)

2015-4 – November 2015: New assessment highlights climate change as most serious threat to polar bear survival – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Dutch)
2015-2 – June 2015: Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update (English / French / Spanish / Dutch)

2014-3 – November 2014: Global appetite for resources pushing new species to the brink – IUCN Red List (English / French / Spanish / Dutch)
2014-2 – June 2014: IUCN Red List raises more red flags for threatened species (English / French / Spanish / Dutch / German)