This new IUCN assessment reveals that almost all photic coral reef ecoregions face a high risk of collapse within 50 years.
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Almost all photic coral reef ecoregions face a high risk of collapse within 50 years.
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The first IUCN Red List of Ecosystems assessment of oyster reefs in Asia finds that more than 99% of these ecosystems have been lost in the Pearl River Estuary and Hong Kong.
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This is the first comprehensive assessment of an entire Ecosystem Functional Group using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems protocol.
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THE RED LIST OF ECOSYSTEMS
What is the RLE?
IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) is a global standard for assessing risks to ecosystems. It allows us to identify common symptoms (both spatial and functional) to understand the level of risk that an ecosystem is facing.
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+Why the RLE?
The RLE is a scientifically robust, transparent, evidence-based support tool that helps us understand ecosystem dynamics, as well as which ecosystems are healthy, and which are at risk of collapse in the near future and why.
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RLE Database
Compiles information from ecosystem risk assessments from around the world that follow the IUCN RLE Categories and Criteria.
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+IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology
The first-ever comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features.
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+IUCN RLE / Social media
A conceptual model is a diagram of key ecosystem processes and threats, and it is an essential step for every ecosystem type as part of the #RLEassessment
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