Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00566003" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00566003 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904731
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.9417" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.9417</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9417" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.9417</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology
Original language description
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment assessed ecosystem change, human wellbeing and scientific evidence for sustainable use of biological systems. Despite intergovernmental acknowledgement of the problem, global ecological decline has continued, including declines in insect biodiversity, which has received much media attention in recent years. Several roadmaps to averting biological declines have failed due to various economic and political factors, and so biodiversity loss continues, driven by several interacting human pressures. Humans are innately linked with nature but tend to take it for granted. The benefits we gain from the insect world are broad, yet aversion or phobias of invertebrates are common, and stand firmly in the path of their successful conservation. Providing an integrated synthesis for policy teams, conservation NGOs, academic researchers and those interested in public engagement, this article considers: (1) The lack of progress to preserve and protect insects. (2) Examples relating to insect decline and contributions insects make to people worldwide, and consequently what we stand to lose. (3) How to engage the public, governmental organizations and researchers through ’insect contributions to people’ to better address insect declines. International political will has consistently acknowledged the existence of biodiversity decline, but apart from a few narrow cases of charismatic megafauna, little meaningful change has been achieved. Public values are reflected in political willpower, the progress being made across the world, changing views on insects in the public should initiate a much-needed political sea-change. Taking both existing activity and required future actions, we outline an entomologist's ’battle plan’ to enormously expand our efforts and become the champions of insect conservation that the natural world needs.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ19-15645Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-15645Y: Multi-taxa responses of tropical insects to climate changes and anomalies on Barro Colorado Island in Panama</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
e9417
UT code for WoS article
000865964600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141164267