IUCN Red List update - October 2025

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DesertRhino150

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The second IUCN Red List update has been uploaded today. These are some of the things I noticed, :

Mammals
  • The hooded seal has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered.
  • The greater glider has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered.
  • The bearded and harp seal have both moved from Least Concern to Near Threatened.
  • The wild camel has been reassessed from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
  • The Hawaiian monk seal has moved from Endangered to Vulnerable.
  • The guina has been moved from Vulnerable to Least Concern.
Birds
  • The jambu fruit-dove has moved from Near Threatened to Vulnerable.
  • The saddle-billed stork has moved from Least Concern to Near Threatened.
  • The violet turaco has moved from Least Concern to Near Threatened.
  • The Alexandrine parakeet has moved from Near Threatened to Least Concern.
  • The Philippine duck has moved from Vulnerable to Least Concern.
  • These are just 5 out of 1,360 changes, although I do not know enough about most of the species to include them here.
Reptiles
  • The black caiman has been reassessed from Conservation Dependent (a defunct status) to Least Concern.
  • The green sea turtle has been moved from Vulnerable to Least Concern.
  • Plus 192 other reassessments, mostly consisting of Australian and Saharan lizards, or splits between species.
Amphibians
  • Primarily updates among African and Indian Ocean amphibians, plus some splits or first assessments among Atelopus harlequin toads.
Bony fishes
  • A lot of the 610 species assessed this time around are African freshwater fish, including tigerfish and cichlids. One species popular in the aquarium trade, the masked julie
    Julidochromis transcriptus, has moved from Least Concern to Critically Endangered.
  • The remaining species are marine, including a lot of first-time assessments for blennies, dottybacks and stargazers.
Cartilaginous fishes
  • The spinetail devil ray has moved from Endangered to Critically Endangered.
  • The Pacific angelshark has moved from Near Threatened to Vulnerable.
  • Most of the remaining 115 species are marine and freshwater rays.
Arthropods
  • Most of the insects are assessments of European bee species.
  • Most of the arachnid assessments are of Saint Helena endemic species.
  • The granulated calloused beach pillbug, a beach woodlouse from Namibia and South Africa, has been assessed for the first time as Endangered.
  • The violet click beetle has moved from Endangered to Vulnerable.
 
Is there a link to all the updates? I know Black-Casqued Hornbill has also been uplisted from LC to NT. I saw the FB page for the IUCN Felid taxon group post that there have been 15 updates to various cat taxa but it doesn't go in depth.

~Thylo
 
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DesertRhino150 said:
This one was a mistype - the green sea turtle was actually Endangered.
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Any species of sea turtle not being threatened is insane - I'm happy to see conservation is working for them.
ThylacineAlive said:
Is there a link to all the updates? I know Black-Casqued Hornbill has also been uplisted from LC to NY. I saw the FB page for the IUCN Felid taxon group post that there have been 15 updates to various cat taxa but it doesn't go in depth.

~Thylo
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Least Concern to New York?
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Is there a link to all the updates? I know Black-Casqued Hornbill has also been uplisted from LC to NT. I saw the FB page for the IUCN Felid taxon group post that there have been 15 updates to various cat taxa but it doesn't go in depth.

~Thylo
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The only way I know of to get all the updates is the following method on the IUCN Red List website itself:
  • Click 'Advanced search' next to the top searchbar
  • Go to 'Red List update' at the bottom of the search filters on the left-hand side
  • Choose the top and most recent update, in this case 2025-2
  • Once that is done, you can filter the changes by taxonomy from the topmost search filter
Just re-checked the hornbills - as well as the black-casqued moving from LC to NT, there was also news for the rufous-headed hornbill, which has moved from Critically Endangered down to Endangered.

As for the cats, the update shows the assessment of only six species, and only one of those (the guina) involved an actual change in Red List status.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
The only way I know of to get all the updates is the following method on the IUCN Red List website itself:
  • Click 'Advanced search' next to the top searchbar
  • Go to 'Red List update' at the bottom of the search filters on the left-hand side
  • Choose the top and most recent update, in this case 2025-2
  • Once that is done, you can filter the changes by taxonomy from the topmost search filter
Just re-checked the hornbills - as well as the black-casqued moving from LC to NT, there was also news for the rufous-headed hornbill, which has moved from Critically Endangered down to Endangered.

As for the cats, the update shows the assessment of only six species, and only one of those (the guina) involved an actual change in Red List status.
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Thanks for the tip!

The cat specialist group post said 15 updates to cat taxa, including subspecies. it seems like some of these updates was simply implementing the "Green List" status to them as well. I know one change was evaluating their "P. leo leo" as EN and P. leo melanochaita as VU. Funny enough they still have separate entries for Asian (EN) and West African (CR) Lions. I have had a change to check what other cats may have had some sort of update, but it looked like some Leopard subspecies may have, too.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Thanks for the tip!

The cat specialist group post said 15 updates to cat taxa, including subspecies. it seems like some of these updates was simply implementing the "Green List" status to them as well. I know one change was evaluating their "P. leo leo" as EN and P. leo melanochaita as VU. Funny enough they still have separate entries for Asian (EN) and West African (CR) Lions. I have had a change to check what other cats may have had some sort of update, but it looked like some Leopard subspecies may have, too.

~Thylo
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I decided to have a look around myself at the cats - it seems the African leopard has actually been assessed for the first time as a subspecies (it certainly doesn't seem to have any previous assessments noted), and is listed as Vulnerable. They have also assessed the West African subpopulation separately, and these are Endangered.

I couldn't find exactly what changes have been made to the Andean cat, Geoffroy's cat or Canada lynx on their pages.
 
The Canada Lynx and Geoffroy’s Cat appear to have only minor updates in the ‘Justification’ section of their Assessment Information, primarily incorporating newly described data. However, it’s unclear whether the assessment for the Andean Cat has been updated in a similar way.
 
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