Animals are declining.
We should help them.

We compile information about animal mortalities and conduct research to learn about recent animal declines.

Mass mortality event of freshwater fish.

Animal Mortality Events

To increase public awareness about declining animal populations, we compile recent news articles about animal mortality events around the world.

Example rows of Animal Mortality Database.

Animal Mortality Databases

Many people have been documenting animal mortalities around the world. We are consolidating documented animal mortalities into unified databases to enhance real-time animal abundance monitoring efforts.

Predicted increases in summerkills over the 21st century. Tye et al., Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2022.

Sustained climate and environmental degradation will increasingly imperil many animal species. We use historical frequencies of animal mortality events to estimate future frequencies of mortality events and provide baseline expectations for wildlife managers.

Fish Mortality Event Projections