According to a report published on livescience.com on June 25, a group of IUCN researchers assessed several of the world's birds, amphibians and warm-water reef-building corals - 16,857 species in total - and studied their exposure to climate change. The species that were chosen for the study covered terrestrial, freshwater and, marine environments.
Up to 83 per cent of birds, 66 per cent of amphibians and 70 per cent of corals that were identified as highly vulnerable to climate change were not on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which is the most widely-recognised inventory of the planet's endangered species.
Study leader Wendy Foden of the IUCN Global Species Programme said, “The findings revealed some alarming surprises. We hadn't expected that so many species and areas that were previously not considered to be of concern would emerge as highly vulnerable to climate change."
Source: www.livescience.com.
