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Red listing: deciding which species are at risk |
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| Authors: | David Keith |
| Institution: | Research scientist in the Biodiversity Research Group of the New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change. |
| Abstract: | Darwin explained how species began. Today we may be witnessing the sixth great extinction. Conservationists rely on the so-called "red list" of most-threatened species, but the red list has been criticised as arbitrary, subjective and based on inadequate data. David Keith looks at the science and the statistics of the red list. |
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