Overestimated range maps used for endemic birds in India’s Western Ghats lead to underestimated threats, study finds

Mongabay
Apr 27, 2017, 5:23 pm275 pts
New research suggests that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is overestimating the ranges of several bird species endemic to the Western Ghats mountain range in India, which can have major implications for determining the extinction threat faced by those species. The IUCN is an…

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