Description: The Alliance for Zero Extinction works to identify and safeguard the most important sites for preventing global extinctions, those that have threatened species restricted to just a single site in the world.
The Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) is a joint initiative of biodiversity conservation organizations from around the world working to prevent extinctions by promoting the identification and ensuring the safeguard and effective conservation of key sites that are the last remaining refuges of one or more Endangered or Critically Endangered species.
Image used in hero section: Juan Fernández firecrown. Photo credit: P. Hodum.
This map shows the sites that hold the last-remaining populations of 1,483 of the Earth’s most threatened species. Protecting these sites is essential to preventing species extinction.