https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230201134201.htm > "It's high time we considered insects in conservation assessments," says lead author Shawan Chowdhury, a conservation biologist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). "Countries must include insects in protected area planning and when managing the existing ones." > Although protected areas are known to actively shield many vertebrate species from key anthropogenic threats, the extent to which this is true for insects remains largely unknown. To determine what proportion of insect species are protected by protected areas, Chowdhury and colleagues overlaid species distribution data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility with global maps of protected areas.