[Screenshot 2024-07-30 at 7.59.14 PM] I’m new to IUCN, and I noticed that insects aren’t listed on the chart above. Could this be because they’re considered data deficient? Apparently IUCN does assess insects to some extent, so I’m curious to learn more about this. iNaturalist has many biases — a…

[image] AdamWargon: Could this be because they’re considered data deficient? There are a million insect species (and even more undescribed), so I wager that less than .1% have conservation status at any level of government or NGO globally. There are some efforts to monitor insect populations …

It’s the same with mollusks. Freshwater mollusks in particular are likely the most imperilled animals, but we know so little about them.

For some groups of freshwater mollusks, like Sphaeriidae, it’s often unclear which species are native and which ones are introduced, let alone their risk of extinction. I hope in the future there would be enough data to actually sort these mollusks out

Not exactly freshwater - but there’s been significant research and work here on restoring natural oyster reefs (which had become functionally extinct around the mainland). One of the really interesting things they’ve learned is that the sound of snapping shrimp drives ongoing recruitment. The oyst…

"Threatened With Extinction" — IUCN AND iNaturalist - #6 by system - Nature Talk

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