April 4th is World Rat Day!

We're sharing a few facts about some of the world's wonderful yet at-risk rats, including:

🐀Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat
🐀Elvira Rat
🐀Tokudaia spiny rats
🐀Sulawesi's rats

Read more here: small-mammals.org/2025/04/04/w...

The IUCN Red List has published its first update of the year (27th March 2025), including reassessments for many small mammal species submitted by the Small Mammal Specialist Group. Read about some of these species here 👉 small-mammals.org/2025/03/27/r...

There is huge interest in hedgehogs in UK, but worth remembering that we know almost nothing at all about some of the hedgehog species found across Europe. And ignorance rarely equals bliss! 🦔 @abigazzard.bsky.social @mammalconeurope.bsky.social.

📢 Calling all wildlife conservation and hedgehog nerds 📢

I am proud to announce that @abigazzard.bsky.social, David Macdonald and I have published a paper summarising the current conservation statuses of the five hedgehog species occurring in Europe:

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

@abigazzard.bsky.social, Dr Alexis Mychajliw, and I have just had our species chapter published:

𝗛𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙭𝙪𝙨 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘁, 𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟯

It features in Guevara, L., León-Tapia, M.Á. (eds). Handbook of the Mammals of Middle and South America. Springer, Cham.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...

The latest 𝗙𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 (FSCF) for early career conservationists 35 years of age and younger in GEF-recipient countries in the 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘀 (𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻).
Check out the call for 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀!!!
Deadline 30th March.
www.rewild.org/the-fonseca-...