Author provided<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe knew many rare insects and plants preferred the same kind of habitat as stone-curlews, so we weren\u2019t too surprised with our results. But they do suggest something very useful. Finding and protecting a single umbrella species could achieve the same result as multiple projects targeted at many other species, for a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n
This offers a shortcut for conservation. In places with many rare and threatened species \u2013 such as the chalk grassland plains of Southern England or the Caledonian pine forests of the Scottish Highlands \u2013 a catalogue of proven umbrella species could help conservationists confidently manage habitats in the knowledge that vast numbers of other species would also benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In conservation, charismatic mammals and birds such as the\u00a0black rhinoceros\u00a0and the\u00a0capercaillie\u00a0get a lot of attention, while others, like invertebrates, are often ignored. One way of addressing this problem is to focus on protecting \u201cumbrella species\u201d. These are species whose conservation can benefit many others, especially those that rely on similar Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[199,151,198,152,197,196,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}