Q.

The organization which publishes the Red list of species is                      [2014]

1 ICFRE  
2 IUCN  
3 UNEP  
4 WWF  

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IUCN is International Union of Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources which is now called World Conservation Union (WCU). It has its headquarters at Morges, Switzerland. It maintains a red data book or red list which is a catalogue of taxa facing risk of extinction. Red data book or red list was initiated in 1963. The Red list of year 2000 has made assessment of 18,000 species.