As many as 222 amphibian species could already have gone extinct, and 2,873 are in danger of extinction, says the second Global Amphibian Assessment, which has been published in the journal Nature.
The study analyses two decades’ worth of data from around the world, evaluating the extinction risk of 8,011 amphibian species for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, which assesses each species’ conservation status according to criteria such as population size and trend, habitat condition, prevalent threats, and range and categorises them on a scale from ‘Least Concern’ to ‘Extinct’.
