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Many more amphibian species at risk of extinction than previously thought
https://news.yale.edu/2019/05/06/many-more-amphibian-species-risk-extinction-previously-thoughtMany more amphibian species at risk of extinction than previously thought
By Kendall Teare | May 6, 2019
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have now been newly identified as at risk of extinction in a Yale-led study.
This paper is published in Current Biology.
“Amphibians are highly threatened and are declining worldwide at an unprecedented rate,” said lead author Pamela González-del-Pliego, postdoctoral ecologist at Yale. “Unfortunately, it seems that the percentage of threatened amphibians is much higher than we previously knew.”
Until this study, less than two-thirds of all amphibian species had been assessed for extinction risk by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — the body that assigns conservation status to species on a scale from “Least Concern” to “Extinct.” This new study by a team of researchers from the United States and United Kingdom provides extinction risk predictions for an additional 25% of the world’s amphibian species, or close to 2,200 species, which had not previously been assessed by the IUCN due to a lack of data.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.005By Kendall Teare | May 6, 2019
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have now been newly identified as at risk of extinction in a Yale-led study.
This paper is published in Current Biology.
“Amphibians are highly threatened and are declining worldwide at an unprecedented rate,” said lead author Pamela González-del-Pliego, postdoctoral ecologist at Yale. “Unfortunately, it seems that the percentage of threatened amphibians is much higher than we previously knew.”
Until this study, less than two-thirds of all amphibian species had been assessed for extinction risk by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — the body that assigns conservation status to species on a scale from “Least Concern” to “Extinct.” This new study by a team of researchers from the United States and United Kingdom provides extinction risk predictions for an additional 25% of the world’s amphibian species, or close to 2,200 species, which had not previously been assessed by the IUCN due to a lack of data.
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I hope to be gone before the polar bears are.
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