IUCN REDLIST AND INDIA  (PERFECT, VIJAYAKUMAR H.D.M)

ESTABLISHED IN 1964, THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE’S RED LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES HAS EVOLVED TO BECOME THE WORLD’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION SOURCE ON THE GLOBAL EXTINCTION RISK STATUS OF ANIMAL, FUNGUS AND PLANT SPECIES. THE IUCN RED LIST IS A CRITICAL INDICATOR OF THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD’S BIODIVERSITY. FAR MORE THAN A LIST OF SPECIES AND THEIR STATUS, IT IS A POWERFUL TOOL TO INFORM AND CATALYSE ACTION FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND POLICY CHANGE, CRITICAL TO PROTECTING THE NATURAL RESOURCES WE NEED TO SURVIVE. IT PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT RANGE, POPULATION SIZE, HABITAT AND ECOLOGY, USE AND/OR TRADE, THREATS, AND CONSERVATION ACTIONS THAT WILL HELP INFORM NECESSARY CONSERVATION DECISIONS. IDENTIFY THOSE SPECIES IN NEED OF TARGETED RECOVERY EFFORTS, BUT ALSO FOR FOCUSING THE CONSERVATION AGENDA BY IDENTIFYING THE KEY SITES AND HABITATS THAT NEED TO BE PROTECTED. ULTIMATELY, THE IUCN RED LIST HELPS TO GUIDE AND INFORM FUTURE CONSERVATION AND FUNDING PRIORITIES. IN THIS BOOK WRITER EXPLAINS CRITICALLY ENDAGERED,ENDAGERED AND VULNERABLE SPECIES OF INDIAN SPECIES WITH EACH AND EVERY IMAGES ..WITH NEAT AND LUCID EXPLANATION.THIS KIND OF EFFORT IN EVIRONMENTAL SECTION VARY RARE..