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IUCN Reaffirms Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium, Cites Species Crisis

7/10/2026

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The IUCN reaffirmed its 2021 deep-sea mining moratorium and urged the International Seabed Authority to require risk assessments.
Deep-sea mining threatens 62 % of endemic hydrothermal-vent molluscs and has listed the snail Lirapex felix as Critically Endangered.
The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) dropped from Near Threatened to Vulnerable because mining threatens one-third of its South African range and two-thirds of its Namibian range.

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The IUCN reaffirmed its 2021 deep-sea mining moratorium and urged the International Seabed Authority to require risk assessments.
Deep-sea mining threatens 62 % of endemic hydrothermal-vent molluscs and has listed the snail Lirapex felix as Critically Endangered.
The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) dropped from Near Threatened to Vulnerable because mining threatens one-third of its South African range and two-thirds of its Namibian range.