Quick snippet for @TimDoherty_ on how to use reol to access IUCN data

iucnThreats.R

## Installation
install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ropensci/reol")
library("Reol")

res <- DownloadSearchedTaxa(c("Diceros bicornis","Anolis carolinensis", "Anolis garmani"), to.file=FALSE, exact=TRUE)
## Get IUCN status
GetIUCNStat(res)
### Extract the full page information.
### This will give you all the description text from the overview page
## http://eol.org/pages/311501/overview
GatherDataObjectInformation(res[1])[1,16]


## Details can be accessed via other rows, so each new row will be a new field in the details page.
## http://eol.org/pages/311501/details
## e.g. Biology description from brief summary
GatherDataObjectInformation(res[1])[2,16]


### Now to what you really want

## Get red list assessment 
GatherDataObjectInformation(res[1])[26,16]

## Get red list major threats 
GatherDataObjectInformation(res[1])[32,16]