Almost 10% of major species face threat of extinction
The Number of Living Species in Australia and the World study found that 0.9% of the world’s 1.9 million classified species were at threat, including 9.2% of major vertebrate species.
Australia’s government-funded biological resources study, the world’s only census of animal and plant life, found that 20.8% of mammals were endangered, as were 12.2% of birds and 29.2% of amphibians.
