The development of Buglife - The invertebrate conservation trust

Abstract

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was an international landmark in commitment to biodiversity - a new term that the politicians readily accepted to mean all organisms, including the tiny and obscure. The resulting Biodiversity Convention was a major breakthrough for invertebrate conservation. It radically reduced the time and energy needed to convince others that invertebrates were worthy of conservation attention; now bugs were 'wildlife' as well.