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Jennifer Luedtke (Swandby)

Manager of Species Partnerships

    Education

    M.A. in Historical and Systematic Theology from Wheaton College, Illinois
    B.S. in Environmental Studies, Wheaton College, Illinois

    As Manager of Species Partnerships, Jennifer is on a mission to foster collaborations that benefit the wild. She values co-created solutions because they are effective, there is strength in numbers, and something new and unique can come from the combination of talents and perspectives. After all, this planet lives and breathes and evolves through communities and symbioses. What better inspiration could we turn to? 

    The seeds of Jennifer's career were planted in A Rocha's community-based projects in Kenya, the United Kingdom, Canada, and college campus-based chapter where she well and truly became a bird nerd. Naturally, this led her to interning in the Bird Lab of the US Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory. These experiences grew into work focused on international cooperation. Jennifer was on the IUCN Species Survival Commission Chair's Office team under Dr. Simon Stuart. Under her leadership, the IUCN SSC Amphibian Red List Authority mobilized more than 1,000 experts worldwide in evaluating the extinction risk of the world's 8,000+ amphibian species, and resulted in the publication of the second Global Amphibian Assessment in 2023. Jennifer serves on the Executive Committees of the IUCN US National Committee and of the Reverse the Red Partnership, she is a member of the National Red List Working Group of the IUCN Red List Partnership and of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.

    Jennifer lives in the Washington, D.C. region. Her childhood home is in Switzerland, where she first learned to love our beautiful, wild world.

    Butchart, S.H.M. et al. (2025). Measuring trends in extinction risk: a review of two decades of development and application of the Red List Index. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 380, 20230206. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0206

    Lucas, P. M., Di Marco, M., Cazalis, V., Luedtke, J., Neam, K., Brown, M. H., Langhammer, P. F., Mancini, G., & Santini, L. (2024). Using comparative extinction risk analysis to prioritize the IUCN Red List reassessments of amphibians. Conservation Biology, e14316. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14316

    Lindken et al. (2024). What factors influence the rediscovery of list tetrapod species? Global Change Biology 30 (1). e17107. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17107

    Luedtke, J.A., Chanson, J., Neam, K. et al. (2023) Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature 622, 308–314 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4 (edited)

    Oliver, P.M., Bower, D.S., McDonald, P.J., Kraus, F., Luedtke, J., Neam, K., Hobin, L., Chauvenet, A.L.M., Allison, A., Arida, E., Clulow, S., Günther, R., Nagombi, E., Tjaturadi, B., Travers, S. and Richards, S.J. (2022) Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna. Communications Biology 5: 1182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04105-1

    Borzée, A., Litvinchuk, S.N., Ri, K., Andersen, D., Nam, T.Y., Jon, G.H., Man, H.S., Choe, J.S., Kwon, S., Othman, S.N., Messenger, K., Bae, Y., Shin, Y., Kim, A., Maslova, I., Luedtke, J., Hobin, L., Moores, N., Seliger, B., Glenk, F. and Jang, Y. (2021) Update on Distribution and Conservation Status of Amphibians in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Conclusions Based on Field Surveys, Environmental Modelling, Molecular Analyses and Call Properties. Animals 11(7): 2057. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072057

    Hobin, L. & J. Luedtke (2021). The IUCN Red List Status of Afrotropical Amphibians–Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Western Indian Ocean Islands. In Harold Heatwole and Mark-Oliver Rödel (Eds). Status and Threats of Afrotropical Amphibians. Amphibian Biology, Vol. 11, Part 7. Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere (pp.187-213). Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.

    Andreone, F. et al. (2021). Amphibian Conservation in Madagascar: Old and Novel Threats for a Peculiar Fauna. In Harold Heatwole and Mark-Oliver Rödel (Eds). Status and Threats of Afrotropical Amphibians. Amphibian Biology, Vol. 11, Part 7. Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere (pp.147-186). Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.

    Henriques, S., Böhm, M., Luedtke, J., Hoffmann, M., Hilton-Taylor, C., Cardoso, P., Burchart, S.H.M. and Freeman, R. (2020) Accelerating the monitoring of global biodiversity: Revisiting the sampled approach to generating Red List Indices. Conservation Letters 13(3): e12703. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12703 

    Lewis, C.H.R., Richards-Zawacki, C.L., Ibáñez, R., Luedtke, J., Voyles, J., Houser, P. and Gratwicke, B. (2019) Conserving Panamanian harlequin frogs by integrating captive-breeding and research programs. Biological Conservation 236: 180-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.029

    Tapley, B., Michaels, C.J., Gumbs, R., Bohm, M., Luedtke, J., Pearce-Kelly, P. and Rowley, J.J.L. (2018) The disparity between species description and conservation assessment: A case study in taxa with high rates of species discovery. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.01.022 

    Juffe-Bignoli, D., Brooks, T.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Jenkins, R.B., Boe, K., Hoffmann, M., Angulo, A., Bachman, S., Böhm, M., Brummitt, N., Carpenter, K.E., Comer, P.J., Cox, N., Cuttelod, A., Darwall, W.R.T., Di Marco, M., Fishpool, L.D.C., Goettsch, B., Heath, M., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hutton, J., Johnson, T., Joolia, A., Keith, D.A., Langhammer, P.F., Luedtke, J., Lughadha, E.N., Lutz, M., May, I., Miller, R.M., Oliveira-Miranda, M., Parr, M., Pollock, C.M., Ralph, G., Rodríguez, J.P., Rondinini, C., Smart, J., Stuart, S., Symes, A., Tordoff, A.W., Woodley, S., Young, B., and Kinston, N. (2016) Assessing the cost of global biodiversity and conservation knowledge. PLoS One 11: e0160640. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160640