Political Ideology Affects Biodiversity

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Conservative governments protect more land while socialists and nationalists threaten more species

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The dire state of biodiversity across the globe suggests not all governments are willing to act decisively to protect nature.

Political ideology is a set of beliefs used as the basis for political decisions.

Each country sits somewhere along a spectrum that spans conservative, nationalist and socialist ideologies.

We found conservative ideology increases the likelihood of having more protected areas.

Socialist and nationalist ideologies increase the number of threatened animals.

The proportion of threatened species is still high ( more than 12% of Australia ’s species are threatened). In Australia , shades of nationalism can be seen in promoting individual iconic species such as koalas .

And conservatism in the use of offsetting to “balance” the impacts of developments.

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