Conservation Research is Bad and They Should Feel Bad

#insectdiversity #insecttaxonomy #entomology #insects

Apparently its become acceptable to publish bad, lazy research in order to propagate extinction fears in conservation biology circles.

Articles:
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/10/up-to-three-insect-species-become-extinct-in-australia-every-week-report-says

Cambridge Prisms: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-estimating-the-number-and-ongoing-rate-of-extinctions-of-australian-nonmarine-invertebrates/D0DCAA03EBA7ACC25F98F7BF5D87A2A6

Conservation Biology: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01245.x