Invertebrate conservation – preserving the smaller majority

Invertebrate conservation – preserving the smaller majority

About the speaker:

Axel Hochkirch is head of conservation biology at the Musée national d’histoire naturelle Luxembourg – Naturmusée. Since his early childhood, he has been committed to nature conservation. He studied biology at the University of Bremen, where he completed his PhD in 2001 on the evolution and ecology of East African grasshoppers. After his habilitation in ecology at the University of Osnabrück, he became scientific lab manager of the Biogeography department at Trier University in 2008. Since 2023, he has been working at the Naturmusée. Axel Hochkirch is engaged in numerous international committees, particularly in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He chairs the IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee as well as the IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group. In addition, he serves as an advisor on various international boards, such as the World Heritage Panel, the European Union’s expert pool on pollinator monitoring, the Advisory Board of the Species Conservation Fund, the IUCN SSC Steering Committee and the IUCN SSC Red List Scientific Committee. Axel Hochkirch is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, most of them dealing with conservation management, conservation policy and ecology.

About the talk:

Global biodiversity is in peril. While the extinction of rhinos, elephants and great apes is well known by most people, the biodiversity crisis also affects the lesser known but far more species-rich groups, such as insects, molluscs and other invertebrates. Invertebrate conservation has some tradition in western Europe and North America, but globally it is still in its infancy. Since a few years the global insect crisis has become better known by the public and small conservation projects have been instigated in many regions. Axel Hochkirch, chair of the IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee, helps to coordinate such projects and instigate new IUCN SSC Specialist Groups dealing with underrepresented invertebrate taxa. In his presentation, he will show how conservation projects for such species-rich groups can be instigated and lead to successful recovery of threatened species.

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