(You can now subscribe to our(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channelCALI (COLOMBIA): More than one-third of the world's tree species are threatened with extinction , according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world's leading scientific authority on the status of species.
The findings, announced Monday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, are especially sobering given the amount of life that trees sustain.
The tree assessment is considered comprehensive because it includes more than 80% of known tree species.
In Borneo, 99 species in the family of trees called Dipterocarpaceae are imperiled.
So many countries signed on that the agreement covers some 90% of the world's forests.

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