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Post by Melanie on Oct 12, 2008 17:37:20 GMT
I must say I am really disappointed on the new redlist. Thousands of species pages are not up to date equal whether the species are rediscovered or not. Last year i've given my feed back on the rediscovery of Karocolens tuberculatus even with reliable sources. But this species is still listed as extinct despite of the fact that it was rediscovered in 2005.
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Post by Peter on Dec 11, 2008 16:15:20 GMT
They have not updated all species indeed. The page you mention of the insect Karocolens tuberculatus is from 1996 and says it needs updating. In other animal groups you can see major updates, like in birds and mammals.
I'm not sure how the process of updating the pages is done at the IUCN, but I can imagine that it is hard to update all of them each year. And It must cost a lot. However, there are many years between 1996 and 2008...
The website itself did not work very well in the beginning. At least not with Internet Explorer, but it did with Google Chrome. At least on my computer. Now I noticed that they have made some changes and now it works much better. And several pages are still offline, like references, etc. But now it says it will come soon.
We will see how it will develop.
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Dec 11, 2008 19:00:06 GMT
Red lists are not the only things that need updating, as a matter of fact. Many discoveries that were made about twenty years ago are still ignored by authorities. And let's not think of what sometimes happen in grocery stores...
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Post by Melanie on Dec 11, 2008 19:14:41 GMT
That it very true. To name an example: The new John Clements Checklist of Birds was released in November 2008. Many taxa which were considered as full species by other authorities in the past ten or fifteen years are still considered as subspecies in that list (e.g. Turdus helleri (common name Taita thrush) is still Turdus olivaceus helleri). Red lists are not the only things that need updating, as a matter of fact. Many discoveries that were made about twenty years ago are still ignored by authorities. And let's not think of what sometimes happen in grocery stores... |
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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2009 16:43:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2009 17:33:47 GMT
for all who have difficulties to search within the Redlist ... so this video was made for me ...  But I have to say, I don't want to watch a 10 minute video of how to use a website, all I want is an easy usable website. And as long as the Red List website only works in that difficult way - or works not at all (for me), I dont' want to use it any longer (for the sake of my nerves). |
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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2009 18:50:06 GMT
Well i agree.
By the way if you type frogs or toads into search engine you will get all listed frogs and toads species as result. But if you type terms like artiodactyls or oaks into the search engine you will get nothing.
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