To effectively protect a species, conservationists need key pieces of information: where it lives and what threats it faces. Yet scientists lack these basic data for thousands of species around the ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so ...

Researchers have developed a framework that can help scientists understand trends in biodiversity by using data from well-characterized species to provide insights on data-deficient species. The ...

‘Data deficient’ species are in deeper trouble than we thought ‘Data deficient’ species are in deeper trouble than we thought is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more ...

Bats in mountainous regions are facing more threats and lack of data compared with their lowland counterparts, a recent study showed. Lead author Rohit Chakravarty in an interview with Mongabay said ...

At the edge of a mountain stream is where conservation ecologist Joshua Weeber spends a lot of his time, scanning the moss-covered rocks for something most people have never heard of – a frog the size ...