New List from IUCN

US Person knows that conservation news can sometimes be depressing to read and write about because so much concerns negative impacts on endangered species. But the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is starting a new list, the "Green List" which will inform us which species are doing well or are "fully conserved". The list will provide a measure of how successful conservation actions and investments are as well as provide incentives for more conservation measures. It will compliment the now famous "Red List" that names those species threatened with extinction. Years will be required to compile the new category since no agreed upon criteria exist among scientists for declaring a species safe, or in the green zone of assured survival at or near their habitat carrying capacity. The idea was approved at the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea this month. Motions to set up a Green and Red list for Ecosystems was also approved