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The IUCN Red List categorize species based on their estimated probability of going extinct within a given period of time. We should also define more clearly what threatened with extinction actually means. There is inevitably more threatened species within the 93% that have not been evaluated. Since only 7% of described species have been evaluated (for some groups, this is much less) the estimated number of threatened species is likely to be much lower than the actual number. The number of threatened species is an underestimate.This is why we do not show trends for the number of threatened species over time.

This means that tracking the data on the number of species at risk of extinction over time doesn’t necessarily reflect an acceleration of extinction threats a lot is simply explained by an acceleration of the number of species being evaluated. As more species are evaluated, inevitably, more will be listed as being threatened with extinction. In the year 2000, less than 20,000 species had been evaluated. More and more species are been evaluated every year. The IUCN Red List is a project that continues to expand.

Changes in the number of threatened species over time does not necessarily reflect increasing extinction risks.

The lack of complete coverage of the world’s species highlights two important points we need to remember when interpreting the IUCN Red List data: As we’d expect, animals such as birds, mammals, amphibians have seen a much larger share of their species assessed – more than 80%. In the chart we see the share of described species in each group that has been assessed for their level of extinction risk. But, this very much varies by taxonomic group. In 2021, it had assessed only 7% of described species. The IUCN has not evaluated all of the world’s known species in fact, in many taxonomic groups it has assessed only a very small percentage. It does this evaluation every year, and continues to expand its coverage. To do this, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species evaluates species across the world for their level of extinction risk. To understand the biodiversity problem we need to know how many species are under pressure where they are and what the threats are. This includes 85 mammal 159 bird 35 amphibian and 80 fish species. Our estimates for the better-studied taxonomic groups are likely to be more accurate. It estimates that 900 species have gone extinct since 1500. In the chart we see these estimates for different taxonomic groups. So this is likely to be an underestimate. Unfortunately we don’t know about everything about all of the world’s species over this period, so it’s likely that some will have gone extinct without us even knowing they existed in the first place. The IUCN Red List has estimated the number of extinctions over the last five centuries. Species that have gone extinct, mainly due to human pressures. 1 Most species have gone extinct.īut when people ask the question of how many species have gone extinct, they’re usually talking about the number of extinctions in recent history. 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone.

While many species are in danger, conservation has also saved tens of mammal and bird species from extinction.Įxtinctions have been a natural part of the planet’s evolutionary history.Extinction rates today are much higher than background rates and rates from previous mass extinctions.More than 178 of the world’s largest species went extinct during the Quaternary Extinction.There have been five mass extinction events in Earth’s history: ‘The Big Five’.One-quarter of the world’s mammals 1-in-7 bird species and 40% of amphibians are threatened.More than 35,000 species have been evaluated to be threatened with extinction today.This means estimates of species threatened with extinction will be an underestimate of the true number. Only a small percentage of species have been evaluated for their extinction risk.At least 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries.More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone. Extinctions have been a natural part of our planet’s evolutionary history.