As part of our ongoing work improving how iNaturalist restricts sensitive geographic information including processes for deciding when species are threatened by coordinate disclosure, we are revisiting the role of IUCN Red List statuses. Almost 10 years ago, iNaturalist automatically imported globa…

[image] loarie: When automatically updating statuses, iNaturalist will use matching and one-to-one names to update the status for any existing global statuses with the IUCN Red List Authority and create any new ones. I am guessing that we will end up with some orphaned IUCN statuses in iNatur…

I’m interested and excited to see how this goes. Lots of caveats but I do envision a future where iNaturalist observations are also feeding information into Red List assessments more seamlessly, since I do think that in many cases there are ranges verified (and correct) on here that are more accurat…

Interesting to see how it will improve the current tags on reptiles and amphibians. I am not sure, as the question is about threats, how "national " IUCN Redlist could be taken into account. As an example the IUCN French committee has been doing many evaluations for 10-15 years and they are recogni…

Ah: this has now been implemented. Please. When there are these dates (deadlines), can one please get a pre-implementation warning of at least one week. Things do slip through the cracks and deadlines do sneak up on one. A reminder or warning is essential please!

Do the deviations have to be entered one-by-one, or can we provide a list of species and the reasons for deviation in a spreadsheet, that can be bulk uploaded, or alternatively handled via an api?

That wont be feasible when we move to plants. We are talking over a thousand deviation flags for plants in South Africa!

Sounds like that would be better handled through national conservation statuses (e.g. NOM-059 in Mexico or NatureServe in the US and Canada) and please do it in coordination with any relevant network node site admins (e.g. Naturalista.mx or iNaturalist.ca). This thread is for global IUCN statuses w…

No: these are IUCN CR, EN, VU and NT that are threatened by habitat transformation and alien invasive species, and thus have no need for obscuration, and therefore require flags. The stati will be the same in .za as the IUCN: but they will require flags. Habitat loss, which includes the irreversi…

If a global IUCN conservation status is not in the default position - ie “secure but obscured” or “threatened but open” there needs to be a link to a flag in the description of the conservation status (with rational for deviating explained in the flag). Otherwise, we won’t be able to keep RedList st…

Updating IUCN Red List conservation statuses

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loarie September 23, 2021, 10:37pm 19

please create the flags one by one

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Updating IUCN Red List conservation statuses

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