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Development and Future of Conservation Policy Initiatives for Insects and Other Invertebrates in Europe

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Insect Conservation: Past, Present and Prospects

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The insect fauna of Europe and indeed the entire invertebrate fauna of the region has been subjected to an immense variety of severe changes of environmental conditions, habitat suitability and other threats to their existence. Most of these animals also remain at the bottom of the league in public profile and conservation status in modern European society and environmental policy.

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Acknowledgements

This essay reflects my own view of events. It would not have been possible without the insights I have gained from my many years of close and thoroughly enjoyable work with the Council of Europe and its Bern Convention Group of Experts on Invertebrates. Thus it is a pleasure to record my thanks to Eladio Fernández-Galiano of the Council of Europe Secretariat in Strasbourg for his expert leadership, guidance and advice since I began taking part in activities more than 20 years ago. Carolina Lasén-Diaz, also of the Secretariat, has been a further great help and support in recent years, including during the drafting of the European Strategy on Invertebrates. I thank Martin C D Speight (Ireland) for his long-standing support and a lifetime of stimulating discussions and also for getting me involved in European invertebrate conservation in the first place. I am also indebted to a great many other friends and collegues across Europe and beyond who, over the years, have provided me with a wealth of information, viewpoints, opinions and discussions, allowing me to better understand and focus my thinking on invertebrate biodiversity and conservation at the international level. Here I include the national Delegates and observers attending the meetings of the Council of Europe Group of Experts on invertebrates, some appearing only once, some regular companions. Also, the members of the small Group of Experts that was set up to advise on the drafting of the European Strategy and the members of the European Invertebrate Survey (EIS). My thanks are also due to the Austrian government Verbindungsstelle der Bundesländer for allowing me to attend the Council of Europe meetings as official Delegate for Austria.

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Haslett, J.R. (2012). Development and Future of Conservation Policy Initiatives for Insects and Other Invertebrates in Europe. In: New, T. (eds) Insect Conservation: Past, Present and Prospects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2963-6_14

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