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Nature 403, 241 (20 January 2000) | doi:10.1038/35002183

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Local data are vital to worldwide conservation

Jon Paul Rodríguez1,2, Gillian Ashenfelter1, Franklin Rojas-Suárez3, Juan Javier García Fernández4, Luis Suárez5 & Andrew P. Dobson1

  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1003, USA
  2. Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
  3. PROVITA, Apartado 47552, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela
  4. FUCEMA, Pringles 10, 3P, 1183 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  5. EcoCiencia, Isla San Cristobal 1523 e Isla Seymour, Casilla Postal 17-12-257, Quito, Ecuador

Red Data Books and Red Lists of threatened species have drawn attention to species at risk of extinction worldwide1, 2. As the number of national Red Lists increases, more information becomes available to assess the global status of species.