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Endangered Oceanic Species
ICUN World Conservation Union
The World Conservation
Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network.
The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than
800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists
and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The
Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies
throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature
and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and
ecologically sustainable.
Traffic
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that
trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of
nature. TRAFFIC works in co-operation with the Secretariat of the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and
Flora (CITES),and is a joint programme of WWF and IUCN-The World
Conservation Union. TRAFFIC's mission is to ensure that trade in wild
plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.
United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation
Monitoring Centre
The
United Nations Environment Programme
World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is the
biodiversity assessment and policy implementation arm of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the world's foremost
intergovernmental environmental organization.
Word Conservation Union ICUN Red List of Endangered Species
IUCN
- The World Conservation Union, through its Species Survival Commission
(SSC) has for four decades been assessing the conservation status of
species, subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a
global scale in order to highlight species threatened with extinction,
and therefore promote their conservation.
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
A searchable database with over 22 million distribution
and location records of 100000+ species of marine animals and plants.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
A searchable database of species of
marine life.
American
Museum of Natural History Statement
The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species
Professor David Ulansey's
Website -Mass Extinction Underway
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