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.
Latest: Rodent research on the “Muskrat Islands”
Undergraduate researcher Max Zeltsar, supervised by our Deputy Chair for Eulipotyphla, Dr Alexis Mychajliw, has been studying island muskrat populations to help us understand how they are surviving.
Photo by Max Zeltsar.
Latest: Alpenzoo joins forces with the SMSG
Alpenzoo Innsbruck and IUCN SSC launches new Centre for Species Survival to aid endangered small mammals.
Latest: Working with Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is pleased to continue their involvement with the SMSG through the appointment of new members and a TAMU-Red List partnership rep.
Latest: Early 2024 SMSG internship
The SMSG would like to say a huge Thank You to Erin McDonald for her work on a number of Red List reassessments for small mammals. Erin joined the team in the UK for a 6 month part-time internship through Durrell.
Latest: Almiquí Project update
Our local partners are continuing their valuable work in the mountains of the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba, to learn more about the fascinating globally endangered and evolutionarily distinct Cuban Solenodon.
