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: Green Status internship
Salome is working with us from Columbia on a Green Status small mammal internship.
Latest: Crazies for Grazies: SMSG welcomes our first small mammal PhD student
We are excited to welcome PhD student Jennifer Panitz to the team.
Latest: Searching for mammals in the mountains of New Guinea
Daniel Solomon Okena, who has recently joined the SMSG, talks to us about his study of non-volant mammal communities along an elevational gradient in Huon Peninsula, north-eastern Papua New Guinea.
Latest: Hedgehog Conference
On the 13th-14th January 2024, over 200 wildlife rehabilitators, researchers and conservation practitioners gathered at Hartpury University (UK) for the International Conference for Hedgehog Rehabilitators.
New study: why are some species rediscovered while others remain lost?
Nearly half (49%) of lost mammal species are rodents, and research suggests that there are more lost and fewer rediscovered rodents than would be expected by chance.
Image: State of Queensland/Wikimedia.