# From Surviving to Thriving: Inside the IUCN Green Status of Species Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species.md Podcast: [The Nature Recovery Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158) Published: 2025-12-17T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18362344-from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18362344-from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/episodes/from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species Duration seconds: 1575 ## Resource Send us Fan Mail In this episode Elizabeth Bock speaks with Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford), co-chair of the IUCN Green Status of Species working group. The conversation explains how the Green Status complements the Red List by measuring species recovery, not just extinction risk. Molly unpacks the three components of recovery (distribution, viability, functionality), explains how the assessment quantifies the impact of conservation actions, and outlines how the Green Status can be used... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/episodes/from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/from-surviving-to-thriving-inside-the-iucn-green-status-of-species.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.