Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- In Spain there are 193 species in critical danger of extinction, 418 endangered and 498 vulnerable, according to the results of a report on biodiversity in Spain.
This report, entitled “State of biodiversity in Spain”, has been prepared by the Macaronesian Species Survival Center of the Loro Parque Fundación and the Spanish Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The study also detects several critically threatened biodiversity hotspots within the territory.
These include the Doñana National Park (Andalusia), the Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park (Castilla la Mancha), the Sierra de Espadán Natural Park (Valencia), the Jandía Natural Park (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), the Natural Doramas (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands), Garajonay National Park (La Gomera, Canary Islands), Tibataje and Las Playas (El Hierro, Canary Islands).
Actions for the preservation of threatened species
The objective of the document, which will be presented on Monday, is to collaborate in the implementation throughout the national territory of the so-called conservation cycle that has been defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which consists of a series of actions that involve the hope for the preservation of endangered species, indicate the promoters of the document in a statement.
Remember that in the 2019 report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) it warns of the very real possibility of the disappearance of a million species in the coming decades.
An ecological and environmental disaster that even the World Economic Forum has incorporated into its global risk report for the world economy this year, the document adds.
For the promoters of this report, the realization of this exhaustive catalog represents a step in the work for the development of actions to protect endangered species, since it means a unification of the existing scientific data and criteria.
Cataloging problems with endangered species
When a comparison is made between the threatened species according to the IUCN Red List, with those protected by the National Catalog of Threatened Species or by the catalogs belonging to the autonomous communities, it is observed that, globally, there is a discrepancy of 65 percent.
More than half of the species considered threatened by the IUCN are not classified in the national or regional catalogues, or are classified with a category other than those established by the Red List.
This discrepancy, adds the press release from the promoters of the initiative, makes evident the need to update the scientific information on these species on the Red List and re-evaluate them, so that the need to update or not the catalogs can be substantiated, and thus harmonizing the indicators of biodiversity loss with their conservation tools.