12/9/2016 0 Comments Not all species created equalAt least when it comes to conservation. It's largely known in the wildlife conservation community that often the animals that receive funding for conservation aren't necessarily those that contribute the most to their environment, but are just simply cuter. M. Sanjayan, in an article for National Geographic, described it "What we decide to save really is very arbitrary—it's much more often done for emotional or psychological or national reasons than would ever be made with a model," For this reason we see species like pandas and tigers receiving large portions of the funding available for conservation efforts because that's what people want to donate to, not necessarily those species that keep our planet and the biosphere functional. This is a graphic of the number of the top 5 species that most non-governmental organizations are dedicated to saving and the number of NGOs that use that species for publicity.
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AuthorMy name is Ian Wright, I'm a bio major at University of Wisconsin- Whitewater and I am writing this blog as a form of dissemination for a paper I wrote on the subject of sustainable conservation. ResourcesICUN RED LIST- Global list of all species marked as having some degree of threat of extinction
http://www.iucnredlist.org/ World Wildlife Fund- Global foundation that supports conservation efforts around the world http://www.worldwildlife.org/ |