News Headline
Plants and insects ignored in Bhutan’s conservation efforts
Source
Third Pole
Publication Date
2020-03-17
A lack of focus on less visible but extremely diverse smaller plants and insects in Bhutan has left conservationists with little idea of the risks they face. Threatened by rapid urbanisation and climate change, these species – such as smaller birds, or wasps and bees, or lichens and fungi – find little space in the conservation strategy that the country has traditionally followed.