International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

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Declared the species extinct in the wild in 1998

The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the cliff cypress extinct in the wild in 1998. Twenty-eight years later, roughly 10,000 mature trees grow in China's Daba Mountains, and about 70% of them are in Chongqing.

Updated 5 days ago

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Tracking 172,620 species through Red List assessments

Cranes returned to Scotland in 2012 for the first time in 500 years; wolves number over 21,500 in Europe, up 58% in a decade; green sea turtles dropped from endangered to least concern. Across the continent, species once written off are staging comebacks.

Updated May 20