Editing IUCN Red List (section)

===2007 release===
On 12 September 2007, the [[World Conservation Union]] (IUCN) released the '''2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species'''. In this release, they have raised their classification of both the [[western lowland gorilla]] (''Gorilla gorilla gorilla'') and the [[Cross River gorilla]] (''Gorilla gorilla diehli'') from [[endangered]] to [[critically endangered]], which is the last category before [[extinct in the wild]], due to [[Ebola virus]] and [[poaching]], along with other factors. [[Russ Mittermeier]], chief of [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-based IUCN's Primate Specialist Group, stated that 16,306 species are endangered with extinction, 188 more than in 2006 (total of 41,415 species on the Red List). The Red List includes the [[Sumatran orangutan]] (''Pongo abelii'') in the Critically Endangered category and the [[Bornean orangutan]] (''Pongo pygmaeus'') in the Endangered category.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.iucn.org/content/extinction-crisis-escalates-red-list-shows-apes-corals-vultures-dolphins-all-danger|title=Extinction crisis escalates: Red List shows apes, corals, vultures, dolphins all in danger|access-date=25 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124083212/http://www.iucn.org/media/materials/releases/?81%2FExtinction-crisis-escalates-Red-List-shows-apes-corals-vultures-dolphins-all-in-danger|archive-date=24 January 2011|url-status=live|date=12 September 2007|publisher=IUCN}}</ref>