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Equal rights for parasites: Are we there yet?
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Equal rights for parasites: Are we there yet?

Alan Lymbery and Samuel Lymbery
International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, Vol.24, 100945
2024
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Abstract

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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