IUCN Says a Quarter of Sharks and Rays are at Risk of Getting Extinct

More than a quarter of world's sharks and rays are at risk of extinction according to a new report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The latest update to the IUCN's "Red List" of threatened species, which found ray species to be at higher risk than sharks, is part of a first-ever global analysis of these marine species. Researchers assessed the conservation status of 1,041 shark, ray and chimaera species, which are ...

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