New Delhi: The destruction of wetlands is foremost to the drop of dragonflies throughout the world, according to an update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Crimson Record of Threatened Species.

The range of species at risk of extinction on the Red List has exceeded 40,000 for the to start with time.

Their drop is symptomatic of the widespread decline of the marshes, swamps and no cost-flowing rivers they breed in, mostly driven by the expansion of unsustainable agriculture and urbanisation all over the world, a global launch from Gland (Switzerland) reported on Friday.

With today’s update, the range of species at possibility of extinction on the Pink Record has exceeded 40,000 for the very first time. The IUCN Red Record now incorporates 142,577 species of which 40,084 are threatened with extinction.

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