The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today introduced the latest Red List of Threatened SpeciesThat has not stopped growing since its first edition in 1997. According to the report, the plant species most at risk (70%), followed by freshwater fish (37%), invertebrate animals (35%), amphibians (30%), reptiles (28%), mammals known (21%) and birds (12%).

Red List contained 12,151 plants, of which 8500 are threatened with extinction and 114 are presently in the category extinct or extinct in the wild. Native American Queen (Puya raimondii) Has been reassessed and is maintained in the endangered category. This plant, found in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, produces seed only every 80 years before he died and it is possible that climate change is already undermining their ability to flourish.

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