By Liu Caiyu
Source:Global Times Published:
2017/12/7 20:53:40
China will add yellow-breasted
bunting to its the wild animal protection list "soon," an official
said Thursday after media reported plummeting numbers in the last decade.
China is mulling including emberiza aureola, commonly known as the yellow-breasted bunting, for a revised list including a higher degree of endangerment, a department official told the Global Times.
The government official, who insisted on anonymity including the relevant department, did not say when the revised list will be released.
The response came as media reported that non-government organization the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded the species to "critically endangered."
"The overall rate of population decline is even greater than previously thought and may have become extremely rapid during the past three generations (11 years)," the union posted on its website.
China is mulling including emberiza aureola, commonly known as the yellow-breasted bunting, for a revised list including a higher degree of endangerment, a department official told the Global Times.
The government official, who insisted on anonymity including the relevant department, did not say when the revised list will be released.
The response came as media reported that non-government organization the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded the species to "critically endangered."
"The overall rate of population decline is even greater than previously thought and may have become extremely rapid during the past three generations (11 years)," the union posted on its website.
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