Biodiversity: the importance of plants and habitats

What are the determining factors in the financing methods to be protected? protected plant species and their habitats? A study by the University of Turin in collaboration with international universities and other institutes
they tried to answer this question. They used the available data for projects TO LIVEthe
funding program for nature conservation. LIFE was founded in 1992. From that year to
2020 LIFE received funding of 2 billion euros for animals, while 690 for plants
millions.

There are many differences between plants. For example, orchids have a lot of money, while species
Scandinavian countries are more funded. Color is key: blue-purple are the most funded. l’habitat

preserved is less affected by prejudice Stylish. Lead the conservation programs of the
biodiversity Focusing on habitat and not individual species makes these programs more valid. Especially when
interventions are made in anthropogenic and fragmented geographical areas.

Biodiversity is one of the largest and most essential resources on Earth. Awareness of the importance of this global heritage is slowly making its way into the collective consciousness. In order to achieve this result in the field of animals, the interested parties have widely used strategies close to marketing, trying to exploit the natural tendency of humans to identify with the subject to be protected and to to anthropomorphize nature. A phenomenon called, ironically, the ‘baby seal effect’.

Martino Adamo, researcher of the United DBIOS

The opposite applies to vegetation, because we speak of plant blindness. The observer always tends to
see plants as an ornamental element in themselves. Not as a bond between people,
species and communities. In the EU, more than 75% of funds have recently been earmarked for interventions for protected nature I’m
went to fund the protection of birds and mammals.