All living beings at your fingertips

1998/09/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Biologia

An organization for species conservation wants to put on the Internet a complete list of 1.5 million known species on Earth by the beginning of the next century. This list would include the list of species from each country and their information, thus facilitating the conservation of nature in poor countries.

In many countries there is no money to investigate the biodiversity of nature, so it is not possible to adequately distribute scientific resources for conservation. The World Biological Facilities are the best project that the rich countries of the world can do in favor of the poor countries, especially if you take into account that in the majority of the rich countries, biodiversity is much lower than in the poor countries.