{"id":13395,"date":"2021-03-25T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:25:14","slug":"african-elephant-species-now-endangered-and-critically-endangered-iucn-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/news\/african-elephant-species-now-endangered-and-critically-endangered-iucn-red-list\/","title":{"rendered":"African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered &#8211; IUCN Red List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Header photo: African Elephant &#8211; Zimbabwe \u00a9 Vince O&#8217;Sullivan (<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vjosullivan\/24905686291\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gland, Switzerland, 25 March 2021 (IUCN) &#8211; Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant as Endangered on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/a>\u2122. Before today\u2019s update, African elephants were treated as a single species, listed as Vulnerable; this is the first time the two species have been assessed separately for the IUCN Red List, following the emergence of new genetic evidence.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p>The IUCN Red List now includes 134,425 species of which 37,480 are threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/news\/species\/202103\/african-elephant-species-now-endangered-and-critically-endangered-iucn-red-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full release on IUCN.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"background \" id=\"block_605c944bbfea1\">\n             <div class=\"dark custom-padding-top\">\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"smallteam-members__name12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n\t<div id=\"team-members-block_605c944fbfea2\" class=\"team-members team-members-block block\">\n\t\t<span class=\"anchor-id\" id=\"\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"team-members__title\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>Learn more?<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"team-members__body small-12 grid-x\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"team-members__item grid-x small-12 medium-6\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"team-members__image cell shrink\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"team-members__image-wrapper lazyload\" style=\"background-image:inherit;\" data-bg-image=\"url(&#039;https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/318IUCN-290915-scaled.jpg&#039;)\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/318IUCN-290915-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; 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Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-red-list-of-threatened-species"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41516,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/41516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-iucn.trybes.work\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}