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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was an international landmark in commitment to biodiversity – a new term that the politicians readily accepted to mean all organisms, including the tiny and obscure. The resulting Biodiversity Convention was a major breakthrough for invertebrate conservation. It radically reduced the time and energy needed to convince others that invertebrates were worthy of conservation attention; now bugs were ‘wildlife’ as well.
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Stubbs, A., Shardlow, M. (2012). The Development of Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust. In: New, T. (eds) Insect Conservation: Past, Present and Prospects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2963-6_4
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