If I asked you to name all the living creatures you know, I am sure it would take you a couple minutes to come up with a list of several hundred, starting with your house plants, pets, to livestock and the things you may see every day like the trees in the green areas you regularly traverse. These all make up biodiversity...The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List tracks the number of described species and updates based on the latest works of taxonomists, biologists that group organisms into categories. Taxaonomy, however, is a field that is ever changing.
