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Half of the data deficient species may be threatened with extinction

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/11/half-of-the-data-deficient-species-may-be-threatened-with-extinction/

We know very little about very many species. Unfortunately, that’s often not a good sign.

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 are listed as “data deficient.”

The researchers simply know too little about these species to be able to form an opinion on whether the species are threatened with extinction or not. But now we understand a little bit more, and unfortunately the news isn’t good this time, either.

“We looked at species that are relatively poorly known, but where at least the geographical distribution is known. These species tend to be threatened with extinction more often than ones that we know more about,” says Francesca Verones, a professor at NTNU’s Industrial Ecology Programme.

In fact, over half of these lesser-known species could be in danger of disappearing.

In addition, there are other species that are even less known, These we can’t even say whether they are in trouble or not.

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/11/half-of-the-data-deficient-species-may-be-threatened-with-extinction/
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