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WELCOME Formed in 2000 and launched globally in 2005, the Alliance for Zero Extinction(AZE) engages 88 non-governmental biodiversity conservation organizations working to prevent species extinctions by identifying and safeguarding the places where species evaluated to be Endangered or Critically Endangered under IUCN-World Conservation Union criteria are restricted to single remaining sites. The map below shows 587 sites for 920 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, conifers, and reef-building corals, providing a tool to defend against many of the most predictable species losses
ANNOUNCING WINNERS OF AZE 7 WONDERS CAMPAIGN
Over 100,000 votes were cast, raising awareness regarding the plight of the nearly one thousand species found at only one remaining site. AZE highlighted a list of twenty representative sites and species from which the top seven were selected by the public. Criteria included even geographic and taxonomic distribution as well as the charisma and attractiveness of the species.
Country-based initiatives, or national Alliances for Zero Extinction, have begun to take shape recently representing partnerships of government agencies and non-government organizations to accelerate the protection of AZE sites in compliance with national commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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