I can’t wait to see what the future holds, as we continue to build the business as a major fast-growth player in the fashion, fitness and lifestyle arenas – we have huge aspirations and hope to one day become the biggest e-commerce group in the UK.”

Progress has, thankfully, happened fast from a time where the word of white scientists was often taken more seriously than that of scientists of colour, says Sundar. However, IUCN assessments continue to take lessons learned in Europe or America, and impose them worldwide “We are now seeing what can only be called a colonial notion of conservation,” he says.

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Menon NK, Shanafelt TD, Sinsky CA, et al. Association of physician burnout with suicidal ideation and medical errors. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(12):e2028780. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28780 The Edgerton brothers and Lewis Morgan first met at school, where they developed a longstanding friendship. Nafilyan V, Morgan J, Mais D, et al. Risk of suicide after diagnosis of severe physical health conditions: a retrospective cohort study of 47 million people. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 2023;25:100562. doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100562 In his new position, Morgan will oversee company strategy and work closely with the Edgerton brothers, who will take the position of joint CEOs. The 25 authors share many concerns and offer a 19-point summary for improving conservation efforts. But they diverge widely in their prescriptions for how the IUCN red list’s role should change.

I have always enjoyed the non-London audience,” said West, which is certainly fortuitous for a man about to ply his trade in Bath. The Ustinov’s marketing department must be jigging with joy at all the free publicity their show has been receiving because of the furore in the footlights that West has provoked.

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A lowland streaked tenrec, a species found only on Madagascar. More than half the mammals on the island are on the IUCN red list. Photograph: Chien C Lee/PA AYBL was founded in 2018 by brothers Reiss and Kristian Edgerton from the living room of their Bromsgrove home. Frequently updated, bottom-up data is available from around the world, says Gonzalez – from individuals observing nature, camera traps, eDNA, satellites and drones. These can give us a picture of the status of biodiversity, as well as the ability to detect change as it happens and can better guide conservation action. The IUCN is currently exploring how the red list can begin to incorporate such data, says Rodriguez. For ocean experts the need for change is particularly evident, says Guillermo Ortuño-Crespo, co-chair of the IUCN high seas specialist group. The red list was primarily developed for terrestrial monitoring, later adapted for marine environments, and assessments systematically fail to reflect marine-specific threats, such as overfishing, meaning species such as yellowfin tuna are assessed as “least concern” despite Indian Ocean fisheries plunging to the brink of collapse, he says.