ADVERTISEMENTThe group has now assessed more than 105,000 species worldwide, around 28,000 of which risk extinction. It found that more than 90 percent of marine fish stocks are now either overfished or fished to the limit of sustainability. The IUCN singled out a number of sea and freshwater fish that now occupy its highest threat category of “critically endangered”—the next step on the Red List is extinction. “Species targeted by humans for food tend to become endangered much more quickly,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List Unit, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Many of these ancient marine species have been around since the age of the dinosaurs and losing just one of these species would represent a loss of millions of years of evolutionary history.” —AFPRead NextLATEST STORIESMOST READ

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 19, 2019 21:33 UTC