About IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Headquarters:United Kingdom. Founded: 1964.

Parent organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. Objective: To have the category of every species re-evaluated every five years if possible or at least every ten years. Powerful tool to inform and catalyze action for biodiversity conservation and policy change, critical to protecting the natural resources we need to survive. Provides information on population size and trends, geographic range and habitat needs of species. Evaluates species in 9 categories through a criteria viz. rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population, distribution fragmentation, etc.