Biodiversité

76 espèces d'oiseaux communs nichant en Bretagne sont menacés. 45 % des reptiles et amphibiens présents sur le territoire breton sont en déclin avéré. Le constat est sans appel. Le constat est sans appel. L'agriculture intensive, l'urbanisation croissante et l'artificialisation des sols, autrement dit l'activité humaine, pèsent lourd sur la faune sauvage dont l'espace de vie se réduit comme peau de chagrin.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is essential for practical and theoretical efforts to protect biodiversity. However, species classified as “Data Deficient” (DD) regularly mislead practitioners due to their uncertain extinction risk. Here we present machine learning-derived probabilities of being threatened by extinction for 7699 DD species, comprising 17% of the entire IUCN spatial datasets. Our predictions suggest that DD species as a group may in fact be more threatened than data-sufficient species. We found that 85% of DD amphibians are likely to be threatened by extinction, as well as more than half of DD species in many other taxonomic groups, such as mammals and reptiles.