MPPSC 2014 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(B) The I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the I.U.C.N. Red List or Red Data Book), founded in 1965, has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. It uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies. These criteria are relevant to all species and all regions of the world.