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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

44% of warm-water coral species facing extinction, conservationists warn

Coral reef (Alamy/PA) -

Almost half of warm-water reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction, conservationists have warned after a global assessment announced at the UN climate conference.

The conservation status for all 892 species was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of threatened species ahead of Cop29 in Azerbaijan.

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