Corals And Angel Sharks On Threatened Species List
October 6, 2007 @ 11:45 AM (EST)
Source: Divemagazine.co.uk
Corals have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species for the first time, as the World Conservation Union declares that more than 30 per cent of marine species on its list are at risk of extinction.
Ten Galapagos coral species have entered the IUCN list, with two in the critically endangered category and one in the vulnerable section. El NiA??’A‚A±o and climate change have been blamed. The 2007 Red List also saw both the spiny angelshark and smoothback angelsharks, found in the deep-water areas of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, move from endangered to critically endangered...
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