Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation
: Jaric, Ivan; Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie; Mammola, Stefano; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Lux, Christina; Crowley, Sarah L.; Albert, Beatrice; Correia, Ricardo A.; Giannoulatou, Ioanna Daphne; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Ladle, Richard J.; Markes, Sarah; Mutiny, Jane; Pillai, Athulya; Sbragaglia, Valerio; Verissimo, Diogo; Roll, Uri
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
: 2025
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
: e70012
: 1540-9295
: 1540-9309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70012
: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70012
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/505446392
Collaborations between biodiversity conservation and the arts can lead to synergies and fresh approaches to intractable problems. These collaborations can yield diverse mutual benefits, such as offering reciprocal sources of inspiration, information, and learning; providing one another with new tools and resources for synthesis and innovation; securing funding; and contributing to increased visibility and influence. The arts may be uniquely poised to raise awareness, influence behavioral change, improve well-being, and assist with developing conservation tools and materials. Likewise, conservation can provide artists with relevant expertise, nature-based art material, samples, and resources, as well as inform sustainability aspects of the arts. Effective synergies between the arts and conservation will necessitate greater funding and institutional support, improved willingness to collaborate, better recognition of the benefits of artists’ involvement in interdisciplinary conservation teams, and sound empirical methods to gauge such collaborations
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JMJ acknowledges support from the Horizon Europe project GuardIAS (HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01, project 101181413); S Mammola was supported by the National Biodiversity Future Center, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, PNRR, Missione 4, Componente 2, “Dalla ricerca all’impresa”, Investimento 1.4, Project CN00000033; RAC acknowledges personal funding from the Academy of Finland (grant agreement #348352) and the KONE Foundation (grant agreement #202101976); IJ was supported by grant no. 23-07278S from Czech Science Foundation; VS was supported by a “Ramón y Cajal” research fellowship (RYC2021-033065-I) granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (MICIU); and VS also acknowledges the project “HumanFear” funded by the AEI (PID2023-146460NA-I00), as well as “Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence” accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S).
