Curious about your livelihood, I perused the internet to find information.
This article concerned me.
New assessment finds dragonflies and damselflies in trouble worldwide
Mongabay:
A global assessment of more than 6,000 dragonfly and damselfly species shows that 16% are at risk of extinction.
The main threats to these insects are the human destruction of their wetland habitats, water pollution, and climate change.
There are more dragonfly and damselfly species than there are mammals, yet they remain so understudied that the assessment failed to come up with enough data to determine a conservation status for more than 1,700 species.
Researchers say better protecting the world’s wetlands would not only save the thousands of dragonflies and damselflies, but innumerable other species too, and provide us with better water quality and more carbon sequestration.
Wetlands are ecological powerhouses: they store carbon, protect us from floods, and supply clean water and food.
“Most dragonfly and damselfly species live in pristine tropical forests, which have been destroyed to a large extent over the last few years,” says Viola Clausnitzer, co-chair of the IUCN’s Dragonfly Specialist Group, a global network of scientists and conservationists. “The destruction is still going on for settlements, large-scale and small-scale farming, wood harvesting and logging.”
How does the population look this year?
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