Unobscure introduced threatened species

[daniel_e]

I was looking at White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolorus) records just now, and I noticed that all the Florida records are locality-obscured because the species as a whole is threatened. That seems a bit silly, given that they’re introduced exotics in Florida. Perhaps some kind of distinction could be made to allow localities outside a species’ native range to not be obscured?

[jwidness]

Previous response from staff:

@loarie

If there’s a global conservation status set to ‘obscured’ than all obs will be obscured even if there are place specific conservation statuses set to ‘open’

This came up previously with European Rabbit which is threatened globally acc. IUCN but invasive in much of its range. The hack was to remove the global status and create country specific statues (sourced to IUCN) for all the European countries where it is native https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43151/edit this leaves it unobscured outside of these countries.

And further discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-handle-global-conservation-statuses-for-non-native-taxa/7118

It’s not clear to me if the “hack” is the officially suggested course of action for this problem, or if the dev team might be open to changing how things work if there is community support.

I will also link to this related discussion about subspecies inheritance of conservation status.

[daniel_e]

Thanks!