IUCN Red List of Threatened Species for 2006

Natural world on red alert The article discusses threats to polar bear habitats, and a "dramatic fall in numbers" of hippos in the Democratic Republic of Congo, primarily due to unregulated hunting for both meat and ivory.

RELEASE OF THE 2006 IUCN RED LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES

Main Redlist page. The list itself is available online as a searchable database.

What do we do? Do we tell people to not eat? Not to have children?

(I'm having a "want to adopt greener habits, but...believe individual action is futile" moment, I suppose.)

I guess the answer is: keeping doing the little stuff, because it really does add up.