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Language-specific hotspots of interest in IUCN Red Listed terrestrial mammals
Authors: Siljander, Mika; Di Minin, Enrico; Ladle, Richard J.; Correia, Ricardo A.
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publishing place: ABINGDON
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Journal of Maps
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF MAPS
Journal acronym: J MAPS
Article number: 2429711
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Number of pages: 11
eISSN: 1744-5647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2024.2429711(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2024.2429711(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477038991(external)
Biodiversity conservation continues to be a global priority and insights into societal interest and support for targeted species conservation actions are essential for their success. Taking advantage of emerging culturomics methods, here we propose a new methodology for mapping societal interest towards terrestrial mammals by combining the IUCN Red List range maps with indicators of societal interest towards species derived from Wikipedia pageviews data for different languages. We show that societal interest towards terrestrial mammals varies between different language groups and is not necessarily concentrated in areas of high biodiversity. We propose that our mapping method can help to identify hot- and cold-spots of societal interest towards biodiversity for different taxonomic and language groups, and we discuss potential conservation applications of the proposed mapping method.
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The authors thank the KONE Foundation and the Academy of Finland for supporting this work.