The core roles and aims of the SSG are to:
The SSG is responsible for developing strategies to manage extinction risk and improve the status of threatened skink species, and co-ordinating conservation management for threatened skink species.
By the end of 2024, we anticipate having assessed all remaining non-assessed species, coordinating the re-assessment of species as their assessments expire, and coordinating the assessment of newly described species.
As a speciose group with a cosmopolitan distribution, a suite of conservation issues threaten the group (e.g. habitat loss, invasive species, climate change). Given this global distribution of skinks, the SSG plans to work directly with the government, non-government, and the corporate sector across the world to achieve positive conservation outcomes. At present, one of the primary challenges that the SSG faces is a lack of knowledge, in terms of the true species diversity that exists, and of the biology, ecology, distribution and conservation status of species.
Learn about SSG’s work and results in 2023.
Previous reports:
2021 SSG Annual Report
Egernia epsisolous, Indee Stn, WA. Photo by R. J. Ellis
Photo: R. J. Ellis
Least Concern Copper-tailed Ctenotus, Ctenotus taeniolatus. Photo by Damian Michael
Photo: Damian Michael
Least Concern White's Rock-skinks, Liopholis whitii. Photo by David Chapple
Photo: David Chapple
