Living room conservation: Gaming & virtual reality for insect and ecosystem conservation

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged biodiversity, butterflies, Butterfly Conservation, Butterfly world, butterfly world 1.0, citizen science, conservation, ecology, Endangered species, Florida keys, insect conservation, insect fauna, Insectageddon, invasive species, Lepidoptera, native fauna, native species, nature, pollinators decline, taxonomyLeave a comment

April 18, 2019

Gaming and virtual reality could bridge the gap between urban societies and nature, thereby paving the way to insect conservation by the means of education and participation. This is what an interdisciplinary team at Florida International University strive to achieve by developing a virtual reality game (desktop version also available) dedicated to insect and plant species. Focused on imperiled butterflies, their innovative idea: Butterfly World 1.0, is described in the open-access journal Rethinking Ecology.

Claims that declines of pollinator species richness are slowing down in Europe revisited

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged bees, biodiversity, bumblebees, conservation, ecology, entomology, IPBES Pollination, nature conservation, Netherlands, pollination, pollinator, pollinators declineLeave a comment

October 11, 2016

Having conducted a thorough interpretation of the results of a recent study that inferred decrease in the biodiversity loss among pollinators across Europe, Dr Tom J. M. Van Dooren reveals that this conclusion cannot in fact be drawn. It is only supported for the bee fauna in the Netherlands. His study is published in the […]