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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23290902\/machine-learning-conservation-data-deficient-species-iucn-red-list-extinction-threat<\/a>
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There are thousands of species on Earth that we still don\u2019t know much about \u2014 but we now know that they are already teetering on the edge of extinction. <\/strong>A new study used machine learning to figure out just how threatened these lesser-known <\/strong>species are, and the results were grim. <\/p>\n

Some species of animals and plants are labeled \u201cdata deficient\u201d because conservationists haven\u2019t been able to gather enough information about them to understand how they live or how many of them are left. It turns out that those \u201cdata deficient\u201d species are unfortunately even more threatened than other species that are more well known (to scientists, at least). The data from this study came from the <\/strong>International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains a global \u201cRed List<\/a>\u201d that ranks species based on how threatened they are.<\/p>\n

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