Data deficient species are being left out of conservation assessments. The species scientists know least about are at an even higher risk of extinction because researchers are unable to tailor ...

‘Data deficient’ species are in deeper trouble than we thought ‘Data deficient’ species are in deeper trouble than we thought is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more ...

Often we simply do not know enough about a species to know how it is doing. On the recognized red list from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), thousands of plants and animals ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so ...

Bats in mountainous regions are facing more threats and lack of data compared with their lowland counterparts, a recent study showed. Lead author Rohit Chakravarty in an interview with Mongabay said ...

To effectively protect a species, conservationists need key pieces of information: where it lives and what threats it faces. Yet scientists lack these basic data for thousands of species around the ...