The world's governments have committed to preventing the extinction of threatened species and improving their conservation status by 2020. However, biodiversity is not evenly distributed across space, and neither are the drivers of its decline, and so different regions face very different challenges. Here, we quantify the contribution of regions and countries towards recent global trends in vertebrate conservation status (as measured by the Red List Index), to guide action towards the 2020 target. We found that>50% of the global deterioration in the conservation status of birds, mammals and amphibians is concentrated in
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113934Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2014
Authors
Rodrigues A S L; Brooks T M; Butchart S H M; Chanson J S; Cox N; Hoffmann, M.; Stuart S N
Language
English
Keywords
global diversity, brazil, seychelles, biodiversity, conservation, mammals, biodiversity
