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[–] kamenlady 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is assessed as having the conservation status of least concern by IUCN. In June 2018, the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified R. pacifica as "not threatened" with the qualifier "data poor" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

So, feeding the threat classification system with poor data, makes it classify the specimen as "not threatened"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's strange to label it as "not threatened" when there is a "data deficient" label available.

It appears that the "data deficient" label is avoided as much as possible:

https://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/sap244.pdf Page 27

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Can we please change the subject? I fear our govt (which is trying to drill in nature reserves currently) will gleefully latch onto this!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Nah it's more like the population is unknown. It lives deep enough that we rarely encounter them, making it difficult to estimate how many them are