A histogram listing the 12 countries with the most threatened species world wide in 2025, according to the IUCN. Madagascar has 4074; Indonesia 2839; Ecuador 2815; Brazil 2790; Mexico 2632; Malaysia 2379; USA 2165; Philippines 1957; Australia 1952; Colombia 1946; China 1763; 1752.

Example of IUCN Red List query, showing a slightly higher number of threatened species in Madagascar than in the graph - perhaps because I included 'Extinct' categories.

So hard to read; both for Madagascar, a country I came to know well in the 1990s, & for Australia just as politicians battle furiously over any potential improvement to nature protection laws.
Species & numbers details via the IUCN Red List: www.iucnredlist.org/search
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Step 1: find out who’s living there *before* you bust up its habitat!
Eg 5 threatened burrowing crayfish burrow only in small areas of land in #Tasmania, often vulnerable to compaction & destruction eg by cattle & housebuilding
www.threatenedspecieslink.tas.gov.au/Pages/Result...

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Forest loss rates in designated 'Swift Parrot Important Breeding Areas' doubled since forestry policy change in 2014.
Swift parrots were listed as Critically Endangered in 2015.

(link to paper below)

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"A mouse being fired out of a cannon..."

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Claws on the Line This information is contributing to a new citizen science project called Claws on the Line, coordinated by the Bookend Trust. It is helping monitor and map where Tasmania's burrowing crayfish are livi...

You can help map & monitor Tasmanian burrowing crayfish burrows & other signs via the #ClawsontheLine project on the iNaturalist app:
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cla...
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Screenshot from the iNaturalist project 'Kelcey Tier Extinction Matters BioBlitz 2023' showing photos of the 4 most recent observations uploaded from the BioBlitz (a forest scorpion illuminated with UV light, a crab spider, a yellow admiral butterfly and a Cribraria slime mould photographed under a microscope); plus the overall stats detailed in the post (plus 32 observers, ie people who uploaded the BioBlitz records to iNaturalist).

And now *412* species have been identified!! - with the help of 118 people contributing from around the world.
That's from 883 records so far uploaded to iNaturalist, gathered during our 30-hour #ExtinctionMatters BioBlitz, across the 184 ha of Kelcey Tier Greenbelt in Tasmania, Australia.
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A moth that mimics a wasp!
Coracistis erythrocosma (or so I'm told).
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So many wonderful moths!!! ❤️ #ExtinctionMatters #BioBlitz