Conservation, like life, is inherently unfair. Some species, through accidents of phylogeny or ecology, are provided with all the public attention and resources needed to develop and implement comprehensive conservation or recovery plans. Other species are at best ignored or at worst deliberately sacrificed at the altar of charisma. Parasite species are at a three-fold disadvantage in this conservation lottery. First, most of them are invertebrates...
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Title
Equal rights for parasites: Are we there yet?
Authors/Creators
Alan Lymbery - Murdoch University, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
Samuel Lymbery - Murdoch University, Centre for Biosecurity and One Health
Publication Details
International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, Vol.24, 100945
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology.