Accidental Chef: An Insider's View of Professional Cooking, Chef Charles Oppman, pp. 251, AuthorHouse, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4634-1471-9, ... This led to the creation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 1948. In 1963, the IUCN created its Red List of Threatened Species. The red list is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species ...