Invertebrate monitoring data from 1990 to 2018 shows that protected areas in the UK are losing species at the same rate as unprotected areas.
environment
January 13, 2023
Many pollinator species such as bees have disappeared from UK protected and unprotected areas Jessica Ziemke/iStockphoto/Getty Images
With protected areas in the UK losing invertebrate species at the same rate as unprotected areas, there is a need for more effective management of land allocated for conservation.
Rob Cooke of the UK Center for Ecology & Hydrology and his colleagues examined data from invertebrate monitoring conducted between 1990 and 2018 to determine the extent to which species spread within protected and unprotected areas. I checked to see if there were any. The study included 1238 species, including ants, bees, hoverflies, ladybugs and spiders.
