(28 Oct 2024)
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WORLD BIODIVERSITY IUCN RED LIST
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ARCHIVE: Canutama, Brazil – 8 July 2023
1. Drone shot of forest arounf Assua River ++MUTE++
2. Juma Indigenous tribe members aboard a boat on the Assua River
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ARCHIVE: Paimado, Choco, Colombia – 24 September 2024
3. Aerial shot showing deforestation along the Atrato River caused by illegal mining ++MUTE++
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Rio Atrato, Choco, Colombia – 24 September 2024
4. Various of boats motoring along the Atrato River near San Isidro municipality, trees seen on banks
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Cambridge, UK – 17 October 2024
5. Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCN, walking through office
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCN:
"We have assessed the status of the majority of the world’s tree species, so that’s about 47,000 species, and of those, 1 in 3 or 38% of them are threatened with extinction. That is a real concern because trees are really a vital component of the world’s biodiversity, and much of the world’s biodiversity, including people, are entirely dependent on trees for their livelihoods, for their well-being, for food, for shelter. Trees play an essential role in terms of the carbon cycle, water cycles, nitrogen cycle."
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ARCHIVE: Canutama, Brazil – 10 July 2023
7. Various drone shots of deforested patches of land on both sides of the trans-Amazon highway, near the Juma Indigenous community ++MUTE++
8. Deforested area outside the Juma Indigenous territory
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Mudzi, Zimbabwe – 22 August 2024
9. Various of the baobab tree with fruit hanging
10. People collecting baobab fruit
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Cambridge, UK – 17 October 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCN:
"So the biggest threat to trees around the world is deforestation, loss of habitat to expanding agriculture, both crops and grazing. Invasive species are a major threat, and a growing threat is climate change."
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ARCHIVE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 13 April 2023
12. Tilt up showing Tasmanian eucalyptus tree trunk and top
13. Aerial shot around Tasmanian eucalyptus +MUTE+
14. Tilt up of Jequitiba tree
15. Drone shot showing trunk +MUTE+
16. Aerial shot around jequitiba tree top +MUTE+
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Cambridge, UK – 17 October 2024
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCN:
"So the urgency is high. We need to act now. The system really has got a lag .. lag effects built into it where threats have happened. Species are declining. Unless we start acting now, we will not stop these declines in time and those species will go extinct. We may even lose these species despite all our efforts. But in most cases we know what to do. This assessment shows us where the actions are needed most, which parts of the world we need to focus on, which species."
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London, UK – 23 October 2024
18. Wide of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
19. Various of large tree
20. Various of oregon ash (fraxinus latifolia), which is currently considered to be ‘near threatened’
21. Various of wollemi pine (wollemia noblis), which is ‘critically endangered’, and a sign about the tree
22. Various of Kevin Martin, Head of Tree Collections, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, inspecting tree
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Martin, Head of Tree Collections, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew:
24. Various of swamp ash (fraxinus caroliniana) which is ‘endangered’
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