Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Alina Freire-Fierro (alina.freire@utc.edu.ec)
Received: 09 Oct 2024 | Published: 10 Oct 2024
© 2024 Alina Freire-Fierro, Diego Tirira, Rosa Batallas, Nora Oleas, Cecilia Rodríguez, Charles Vogt, Héctor Cadena-Ortiz, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Fernanda Salazar, David Donoso
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Freire-Fierro A, Tirira DG, Batallas R, Oleas NH, Rodríguez C, Vogt C, Cadena-Ortiz H, Ulloa Ulloa C, Salazar F, Donoso D (2024) Ecuadorian Red Lists and the IUCN Red List: A Disconnect. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8: e138924. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138924
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Up-to-date and globally available information about the conservation status of biodiversity is of paramount importance, given the accelerating global biodiversity loss. Governments rely on this information for policies on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Ecuador, a neotropical biodiversity hotspot, harbors a significant number of endemic plant, animal, and fungal species and several of these groups have been evaluated in Ecuadorian non-IUCN Red Lists. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (
Plants: Ecuador has ca. 18,800 vascular plant species (
Fungi: There is no known catalog of native Ecuadorian fungal taxa.
Insects: No catalog of native Ecuadorian insects, nor their conservation status are available. An updated list of Ecuadorian type specimens (
Fishes: Ecuador has 836 species including 92 (11%) endemics (
Amphibia: A recent Ecuadorian Red List assessment found 635 species of native amphibians in Ecuador, 53% of which are categorized as threatened; 33 experts collaborated with the assessments (
Reptiles: Ecuador has 401 reptile species, 27% of them are threatened; 15 collaborators participated in the report (
Birds: There are 1,582 native species in Ecuador with 39 (2.5 %) endemic (
Mammals: There are 471 native species, including 62 (13%) endemics (
There is an urgent need to create an efficient workflow for conservation assessments made by local taxonomists, including training in the IUCN Red List process (
conservation, endemics
Alina Freire-Fierro, Diego Tirira
SPNHC-TDWG 2024
We acknowledge support from our home institutions through many small grants and/or time. SPNHC partially supported AFF's in-person participation and iDigBio sponsored the in-person participation of AFF and DT at the conference.