A limited view of ecology leads to extremely limited conservation efforts.
, particularly in Asia, Europe, and Southern Africa.
But new research estimates that we are low-balling even these numbers of biodiversity loss. The reason? A lack of diversity in the specialists contributing to those species counts. A group of researchers from all across the globe just published the results of a survey of more than 3,000 biodiversity experts from 187 different countries in the journal. What they found was experts from the Global South and experts who identified as women were underrepresented in biodiversity perspectives.
“This paper includes the perspectives of a very wide range of experts and allows us to assess less known taxa, as well as give a voice to underrepresented experts in the global literature.
. “Also, experts who identify as women disproportionately study the taxa that experts estimate are most threatened.”The surveyed experts estimate that about 16 to 50 percent of species have been globally threatened or driven to extinction since 1500. That’s compared to
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