IUCN SSC

Our website serves as an information hub for researchers, conservation professionals and keen naturalists who are interested in the world’s rodents, shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs and treeshrews.

Learn about the work of some of our global experts investigating small mammals, including the discovery of new species.

Discover more about this amazingly diverse group of mammals, their threats and what needs to be done to conserve them.

Find out about our members working in remote places around the world to save the most endangered species of small mammal.

Latest: Centre for Species Survival welcomes Nora Weyer!

Alpenzoo and the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group (SMSG) – who have collaborated to create a Centre for Species Survival – are pleased to welcome Nora Weyer to the team.

Latest: BeaverCon 2024

A group of Middlebury College students working with IUCN SMSG deputy chair Dr. Alexis Mychajliw had the wonderful opportunity to attend BeaverCon in Boulder, CO.

Dr Jon Paul Rodríguez (Chair of the SSC) presenting the Excellence Award to the SMSG co-chairs

Latest: The Small Mammal Specialist Group at the SSC Leaders’ Meeting

Co-chairs Dr Ros Kennerley (based at Durrell) and Dr Tom Lacher (Texas A&M University) attended the 5th IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Leaders’ Meeting in Abu Dhabi.

Latest: Small mammal extinction risk is worsening in recent Red List update

In its second update of the year (28th October 2024), the Red List included an update for hundreds of small mammal species submitted by the Small Mammal Specialist Group (SMSG).

Discover more about the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group and its projects.

About SMSG

Small Mammals

Find out about the amazing diversity of small mammals – half of all mammal species.

Small Mammals

Conservation

Our global conservation priorities and the people working on the ground to save small mammals.

Conservation

Science

The science of the diversity, ecology and conservation status of over 2800 small mammal species.

Science