Q.'Red data book' - What do you know about it?

Step 1. The chapter defines the Red Data Book, or Red List, as 'a catalogue of taxa facing risk of extinction'.

Step 2. It is maintained by the IUCN — the International Union of Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources — which was renamed the World Conservation Union (WCU), based in Morges, Switzerland; the concept of the Red List was first mooted in 1963.

Step 3. Its stated purposes are: creating awareness of the degree of threat to biodiversity, identifying and documenting species at high risk of extinction, providing a global index of declining biodiversity, helping prepare conservation priorities and action, and providing information on international agreements on conserving biological diversity. …

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