India, Oct. 10 -- India has launched the National Red List Assessment (NRLA) initiative to fulfil commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Union minister of state for environment, forest and climate change, Kirti Vardhan Singh, unveiled India's Vision 2025-2030 for the NRLA, which aims to document and assess the extinction risks of about 11,000 species, including 7,000 species of flora and 4,000 species of fauna, across the country's diverse ecosystems. The announcement was part of the ministry's report titled 'National Red List Assessment of Indian Flora and Fauna'.

The framework for the assessment has been prepared by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and...