Red List of Earth Life Facing Extinction Keeps Growing

“Ever since we have been doing the Red List, the numbers go up every year. ...We are certainly looking at an extinction crisis where things are accelerating and it's an out of control stage.”

- Craig Hilton-Taylor, Mgr., IUCN Red List, U. K.

November 19, 2009  Cambridge, England - This past spring, the United Nations Environment Program declared 2010 to be the Year of Biodiversity. The goal is to unite 40 international organizations to assess the loss of biodiversity on Earth now and what to do in the future to keep Earth life from dying out in the face of climate change, loss of habitats and onslaughts from pesticides and other toxins in the environment. The 2010 Year of Biodiversity slogan is “Life in harmony, into the future.”