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Quarter of Sharks and Rays Threatened with Extinction:
A quarter of the world's sharks and rays are threatened with extinction according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, with ray species found to be at a higher risk than sharks. The findings are part of the first ever global analysis of these species carried out by the IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG).
The study, which comes at the start of the year marking the 50th anniversary of The IUCN Red List, was published today in the journal eLIFE. It includes the analysis of the conservation status of 1,041 shark, ray and closely related chimaera species.
According to the findings, sharks, rays and chimaeras are at a substantially higher risk than most other groups of animals and have the lowest percentage of species considered safe – with only 23% categorized as Least Concern.
"Our analysis shows that sharks and their relatives are facing an alarmingly elevated risk of extinction," says Dr Nick Dulvy, IUCN SSG Co-Chair and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. "In greatest peril are the largest species of rays and sharks, especially those living in shallow water that is accessible to fisheries."
You can browse The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species online.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @05:32PM
Give me some extra time and a I'll find a replacement for Michael Cohen so I can threaten the remaining three quarters of sharks and rays with extinction.