Projects to save the backbone of ecosystems: the insects

Ecologists and biologists agree on two facts:

• We are living during the time of the sixth great extinction event

• Without the world of the insects ecosystems breakdown, as the insects are the backbone of ecosystems

Nowadays there are thousands of scientists performing research in all disciplines related to biology. These scientists are doing an amazing work published in nearly 200 scientific journals. Nevertheless, the sixth extinction event is ongoing with high speed. There are also global, regional and local innumerous elaborated plans and actions to try to prevent so as to slow down the ongoing extinction of biodiversity.

Maybe it is worth to try to invest a part of the human energy and resources directed to activism, to talks and big plans to local efficient activities. People would have to organize themselves on local level: streets, neighborhoods and towns to save the insects which are the lifeline of biodiversity and ecosystems. There are positive results in saving honeybees but this is just a start – honeybees alone cannot save ecosystems from collapse.

Here bellow you will find the description of some projects to save butterflies, ants, so as solitary bee aggregations.