Gland, Switzerland – IUCN, the International Union for Conservation Nature, welcomes the Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control, today launched at the tenth plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES10), in Bonn, Germany
Experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) helped inform the assessment, contributing integral data and expertise to assess the risk from 37,000 known alien species.
These are species that have been introduced to areas outside their natural range, either intentionally or unintentionally by human activities and are rising at unprecedented rates. Evidence of negative impacts upon nature have been recorded for more than 3,500 of these, which are categorised as Invasive Alien Species (IAS). These often also have negative impacts on people.
