Red List

The Red List is a significant step towards promoting and achieving this objective.

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The polar bear continues to be listed as vulnerable on the 2009 Red List, which is only one step down from endangered.

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The Red List has assigned monitoring responsibility to a series of conservation authorities.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

The Red List declared 473 species extinct in the first decade of this century, and only a handful of species have ever reappeared.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

"The main focus of the Red List is to stop species from going extinct - to identify species moving in that direction and to marshal resources to protect them," says Craig Hilton Taylor, unit manager of the Red List.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

In 1996, the Red List declared the species critically endangered.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

But the Red List doesn't make the decision lightly.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

Still, the Red List is holding off on declaring the Yangtze River dolphin extinct.

Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

Recordings of Red List infractions, and any subsequent Blue Coat visits, come to me as pieces of audio we call waveforms—acoustic data we can watch as well as hear.

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In this context, I believe that the Red List will play an important tool in providing information on Cambodian antiquities at risk and ensure appropriate actions to safeguard them.

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