“The new ratings certainly do bring some good news,” said Grantly Galland at the Pew Charitable Trusts. The IUCN red list update included some good news – four out of seven species of commercially fished tuna – Atlantic bluefin, southern bluefin, albacore and yellowfin – are on the path to recovery, thanks to the introduction of fishing quotas in the past 10 years. Sharks and rays are also burdened by the bad luck of their biology – they reproduce slowly and in low numbers, which means they are slower to bounce back compared with other species. The organisation also included a comprehensive reassessment of shark and ray species, with 37% now threatened with extinction due to overfishing, loss of habitat and the climate crisis. Out of 138,000 species on the updated IUCN red list, more than 38,000 are threatened with extinction.
The subpopulation in Komodo national park is currently stable and protected. They discovered where they were living on Flores and now hope to do more focused conservation and community work in those areas. “It is the most charismatic reptile on the planet yet until last year we didn’t really know where the komodos lived,” said Garcia, who was part of a three-year project with the Indonesian NGO Komodo Survival Programme that involved using camera traps to work out their movements.
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