IUCN report says one in three of world’s trees in danger of extinction

More than one in three of the world’s trees are in danger of extinction according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), threatening life on Earth as we know it.

It said the number of endangered trees is more than double the number of all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians combined.

The organisation’s first Global Tree Assessment was issued to coincide with the United Nation’s…