International Day for Biological Diversity

  Mountain gorillas are considered endangered by IUCN's Red List . Not only are mountain gorillas threatened by loss of habitat due to human encroachment, they have also become victims of human violence . As civil war rages in Africa, efforts to conserve mountain gorilla populations have been curtailed. A taxon is Extinct In The Wild (EW) when it is known only to survive in cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalized population (or populations). The Red List Index (RLI) has been widely adopted in different policy contexts, including for assessing progress towards the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target and Aichi Biodiversity Targets , the UN Sustainable Development Goals (for which it is an official indicator for Goal 15), the Convention on Migratory Species (and several of its daughter agreements), etc. It is recommended as an indicator for the Goals and Targets in the CBD's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework . It has also been used in the reg...

Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephant populations have experienced significant declines over the last century. The greatest threat to African forest elephants is poaching for the illegal ivory trade , while Asian elephant populations are most at risk from habitat loss and resulting human-elephant conflict. Species categorized as Extinct (EX)  

 Ensure urgent management actions to halt human induced extinction of known threatened species and for the recovery and conservation of species , in particular threatened species, to significantly reduce extinction risk, as well as to maintain and restore the genetic diversity within and between populations of native, wild and domesticated species to maintain their adaptive potential, including through in situ and ex situ conservation and sustainable management practices , and effectively manage human-wildlife interactions to minimize human-wildlife conflict for coexistence.