One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction

Overed-Sayer, Catherine; Fernando, Eresha; Jiménez, Randall R.; Macfarlane, Nicholas B. W.; Rapacciuolo, Giovanni; Böhm, Monika; Brooks, Thomas M.; Contreras‐MacBeath, Topiltzin; Cox, Neil A.; Harrison, Ian; Hoffmann, Michael; Jenkins, Richard K. B.; Smith, Kevin G.; Vié, Jean-Christophe; Abbott, John C.; Allen, David J.; Allen, Gerald R.; Barrios, Violeta; Boudot, Jean‐Pierre; Carrizo, Savrina F.; Charvet, Patrícia; Clausnitzer, Viola; Congiu, Leonardo; Crandall, Keith A.; Cumberlidge, Neil; Cuttelod, Annabelle; Dalton, James; Daniels, Adam G.; Grave, Sammy De; Knijf, Geert De; Dijkstra, Klaas‐Douwe B.; Dow, Rory A.; Freyhof, Jörg; García, Nieves; Gessner, Joern; Getahun, Abebe; Gibson, Claudine; Gollock, Matthew; Grant, Michael I.; Groom, Alice E. R.; Hammer, Michael P.; Hammerson, Geoffrey A.; Hilton‐Taylor, Craig; Hodgkinson, Laurel; Holland, Robert A.; Jabado, Rima W.; Juffe‐Bignoli, Diego; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Karimov, Bakhtiyor; Kipping, Jens; Kottelat, Maurice; Lalèyé, Philippe; Larson, Helen K.; Lintermans, Mark; Lozano, Federico; Ludwig, Arne; Lyons, Timothy J.; Máiz-Tomé, Laura; Molur, Sanjay; Ng, Heok Hee; Numa, Catherine; Palmer-Newton, Amy F.; Pike, Charlotte; Pippard, Helen; Polaz, Carla Natacha Marcolino; Pollock, Caroline M.; Raghavan, Rajeev; Rand, Peter S.; Ravelomanana, Tsilavina; Reis, Roberto Esser dos; Rigby, Cassandra L.; Scott, Janet A.; Skelton, Paul; Sloat, Matthew R.; Snoeks, Jos; Stiassny, Melanie L. J.; Tan, Heok Hui; Taniguchi, Yoshinori; Thorstad, Eva B.; Tognelli, Marcelo F.; Torres, Armi G.; Torres, Yan; Tweddle, Denis; Watanabe, Katsutoshi; Westrip, James R.S.; Wright, Emma G. E.; Zhang, E; Darwall, W.R.T.

doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08375-z

articleNatureJan 8, 2025HYBRID OA

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction

COCatherine Overed-Sayer EFEresha Fernando RRRandall R. Jiménez NBNicholas B. W. Macfarlane GRGiovanni Rapacciuolo

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Abstract Freshwater ecosystems are highly biodiverse 1 and important for livelihoods and economic development 2 , but are under substantial stress 3 . To date, comprehensive global assessments of extinction risk have not included any speciose groups primarily living in freshwaters. Consequently, data from predominantly terrestrial tetrapods 4,5 are used to guide environmental policy 6 and conservation prioritization 7 , whereas recent proposals for target setting in freshwaters use abiotic factors 8–13 . However, there is evidence 14–17 that such data are insufficient to represent the needs of freshwater species and achieve biodiversity goals 18,19 . Here we present the results of a multi-taxon global…

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Threatened species
IUCN Red List
Biodiversity
Ecology
Freshwater ecosystem
Extinction (optical mineralogy)
Endangered species
Near-threatened species

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