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Domitilla Raimondo is the Threatened Species Unit Manager at the South African National Biodiversity Institute. She is responsible for the species assessments for South Africa’s National Biodiversity Assessment. Domitilla has extensive experience assessing the threat status for South Africa’s animal and plant species, is the lead author of the “Red List of South African Plants” (2009) and has co-ordinated the Red List assessments for many animal groups. She is dedicated to ensuring that species information feeds into landuse decision making. Domitilla is also involved in species conservation work internationally and is the Co-Chair of the Species Survival Commission's National Red List Working Group and serves on the IUCN’s Red List Scientific Committee.

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Employment (1)

South African National Biodiversity Institute: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Cape Town: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

1999-01 to 2000-03 | MSc. Conservation Biology (Biology)
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Professional activities (1)

IUCN: Cambridge, GB

2014-05-04 to present | Red List Committee Species Survival Commission Plant Representative
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Works (20)

Measuring trends in extinction risk: a review of two decades of development and application of the Red List Index

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2025-01-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0206
Part of ISSN: 0962-8436
Part of ISSN: 1471-2970
Contributors: Stuart Butchart; H. Resit Akcakaya; Alex J. Berryman; Thomas Brooks; Ian Burfield; Janice Chanson; Maria P. Dias; John Donaldson; Claudia Hermes; Craig Hilton-Taylor et al.
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Understanding and achieving species elements in the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

BioScience
2024-08-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae065
Part of ISSN: 0006-3568
Part of ISSN: 1525-3244
Contributors: Philip McGowan; Alison Hutchinson; Thomas Brooks; Wendy Elliott; Michael Hoffmann; Louise Mair; Amy McDougall; Domitilla C Raimondo; Stuart Butchart
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Drivers, predictors, and probabilities of plant extinctions in South Africa

Biodiversity and Conservation
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-023-02696-7
Contributors: D. Van der Colff; S. Kumschick; W. Foden; D. Raimondo; C. Botella; L. von Staden; J. R. U. Wilson
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Using Red List Indices to monitor extinction risk at national scales

Conservation Science and Practice
2023-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12854
Contributors: Domitilla Raimondo; Bruce E. Young; Thomas M. Brooks; Pedro Cardoso; Dewidine van der Colff; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias; Ugo Vercillo; Estevão de Souza; Aino Juslén; Esko Hyvarinen et al.
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Addressing the Biodiversity Paradox: Mismatch between the Co-Occurrence of Biological Diversity and the Human, Financial and Institutional Resources to Address Its Decline

Diversity
2022-08-26 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/d14090708
Part of ISSN: 1424-2818
Contributors: Jon Paul Rodríguez; Bibiana Sucre; Kira Mileham; Ada Sánchez-Mercado; Nahomy De Andrade; Bezeng Simeon; Carmel Croukamp; João Falcato; Pablo Garcia-Borboroglu; Susana González et al.
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Diversity, distribution and extinction risk of native freshwater fishes of South Africa

Journal of Fish Biology
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15011
Contributors: Albert Chakona; Martine S. Jordaan; Domitilla C. Raimondo; Roger I. Bills; Paul H. Skelton; Dewidine van der Colff
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A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets

Nature Ecology and Evolution
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01432-0
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2-s2.0-85104064177

Part of ISSN: 2397334X
Contributors: Mair, L.; Bennun, L.A.; Brooks, T.M.; Butchart, S.H.M.; Bolam, F.C.; Burgess, N.D.; Ekstrom, J.M.M.; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Hoffmann, M.; Ma, K. et al.
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A strategy for the next decade to address data deficiency in neglected biodiversity

Conservation Biology
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13589
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2-s2.0-85090062588

Part of ISSN: 15231739 08888892
Contributors: Hochkirch, A.; Samways, M.J.; Gerlach, J.; Böhm, M.; Williams, P.; Cardoso, P.; Cumberlidge, N.; Stephenson, P.J.; Seddon, M.B.; Clausnitzer, V. et al.
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Carbon-14 dating when there's no ring on it: Age of four Pondoland grassland geoxyles and lessons learned

South African Journal of Botany
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2020.06.008
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2-s2.0-85086585176

Part of ISSN: 02546299
Contributors: Dayaram, A.; Witkowski, E.T.F.; Raimondo, D.C.; Bamford, M.K.
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Conservation in the context of wildflower harvesting: the development and implementation of a Vulnerability Index on the Agulhas Plain of South Africa

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1687428
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2-s2.0-85075135939

Part of ISSN: 13600559 09640568
Contributors: Privett, S.; Bek, D.; Bailey, R.; Binns, T.; Raimondo, D.; Kirkwood, D.; Euston-Brown, D.
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Preventing extinctions post-2020 requires recovery actions and transformative change

bioRxiv
2020 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.09.374314
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2-s2.0-85098880458

Part of ISSN: 26928205
Contributors: Bolam, F.C.; Ahumada, J.; Akçakaya, H.R.; Brooks, T.M.; Elliott, W.; Hoban, S.; Mair, L.; Mallon, D.; McGowan, P.J.K.; Raimondo, D. et al.
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The South African National Red List of spiders: Patterns, threats, and conservation

Journal of Arachnology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1636/0161-8202-48.2.110
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2-s2.0-85093498079

Part of ISSN: 01618202
Contributors: Foord, S.H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Lyle, R.; Lotz, L.N.; Sethusa, T.; Raimondo, D.
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Priority areas for the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives in South Africa

Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S1479262118000503
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2-s2.0-85060050150

Part of ISSN: 1479263X 14792621
Contributors: Holness, S.; Hamer, M.; Magos Brehm, J.; Raimondo, D.
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Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing

Biological Conservation
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.002
EID:

2-s2.0-85063113186

Part of ISSN: 00063207
Contributors: Bachman, S.P.; Field, R.; Reader, T.; Raimondo, D.; Donaldson, J.; Schatz, G.E.; Lughadha, E.N.
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The ethnobotany of Central Sekhukhuneland, South Africa

South African Journal of Botany
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2019.01.001
EID:

2-s2.0-85062089942

Part of ISSN: 02546299
Contributors: Mogale, M.M.P.; Raimondo, D.C.; VanWyk, B.-E.
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Ecological research and conservation management in the Cape Floristic Region between 1945 and 2015: History, current understanding and future challenges

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2016.1225607
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2-s2.0-84989942041

Part of ISSN: 0035919X
Contributors: van Wilgen, B.W.; Carruthers, J.; Cowling, R.M.; Esler, K.J.; Forsyth, A.T.; Gaertner, M.; Hoffman, M.T.; Kruger, F.J.; Midgley, G.F.; Palmer, G. et al.
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Lessons from the conservation assessment of the South African Megaflora

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3417/2011111
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2-s2.0-84890838677

Part of ISSN: 00266493
Contributors: Raimondo, D.C.; Von Staden, L.; Donaldson, J.S.
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Taxonomic research priorities for the conservation of the South African flora

South African Journal of Science
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1590/sajs.2013/1182
EID:

2-s2.0-84876241474

Part of ISSN: 19967489 00382353
Contributors: Von Staden, L.; Raimondo, D.; Dayaram, A.
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Potential impacts of future land use and climate change on the Red List status of the Proteaceae in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Global Change Biology
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00997.x
EID:

2-s2.0-15244345565

Part of ISSN: 13541013 13652486
Contributors: Bomhard, B.; Richardson, D.M.; Donaldson, J.S.; Hughes, G.O.; Midgley, G.F.; Raimondo, D.C.; Rebelo, A.G.; Rouget, M.; Thuiller, W.
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Responses of cycads with different life histories to the impact of plant collecting: Simulation models to determine important life history stages and population recovery times

Biological Conservation
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00303-8
EID:

2-s2.0-0037410079

Part of ISSN: 00063207
Contributors: Raimondo, D.C.; Donaldson, J.S.
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