IN NUMBERS

600m

reptiles are estimated to be killed by feral cats in Australia every year, says the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

50%

is the IUCN figure for the decline in Mauritian flying foxes on Mauritius and Réunion in 2015–6 after a cull to protect fruit crops.

4

amphibian species have been ‘rediscovered’ in Andean South America. One, the Quito stubfoot toad found in 2016, had not been seen for 28 years.