We assessed the prevalence of alien species as a driver of recent extinctions in five major taxa (plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), using data from the IUCN Red List. Our results show that alien species are the second most common threat associated with species that have gone completely extinct from these taxa since AD 1500. Aliens are the most common threat associated with extin...

Oxalis simplicifolia Lorence & W. L. Wagner sp. nov., a new species from the Marquesas Islands (Ua Huka) is described and illustrated. It differs from the other Marquesas species, Oxalis gagneorum, in having simple, unifoliolate glabrous leaves, minutely glandular-puberulent calyx lobes, shorter corolla lobes, erect capsules, and smaller seeds. As its habitat is under serious threat from human ...

Christia vespertilionis (L. f.) Bakh. f., (Family: Fabaceae), commonly known as ‘Red butterfly wing’ is an important medicinal plants with promising antimalarial and anticancer properties. The plant has been enlisted under the IUCN Red list of Threatened Species. A through literature survey available from all possible scientific sources revealed very little information about this plant. There r...

Musa manii H.Wendl. ex Baker categorized as a critically endangered wild banana species (IUCN red list, 2019) and M. markkui Gogoi & Borah, so far reported only from Arunachal Pradesh, India is being in this paper new additions to the flora of Nagaland.

A clear understanding of population structure is essential for assessing conservation status and implementing management strategies. A small, non-migratory population of humpback whales in the Arabian Sea is classified as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, an assessment constrained by a lack of data, including limited understanding of its relationship to other populations....

Detailed large-scale information on mammal distribution has often been lacking, hindering conservation efforts. We used the information from the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as a baseline for developing habitat suitability models for 5027 out of 5330 known terrestrial mammal species, based on their habitat relationships. We focused on the following environmental variables: land cove...