Hotspots by Russell Mittermeier, Norman Myers and Cristina Goettsch
Mittermeier, University of Chicago Press, £45.50/$65, ISBN
9686397582
“GOTTA catch `em all,” says the Pokémon fan. Sadly, conservationists
have had to acknowledge that they just can’t save everything. So in 1998,
environmentalist Norman Myers proposed a radical solution: go for areas that
have the most endemic species and the greatest number of species, and forget the
rest for now.
Although criticised as simplistic, his idea has got some supporters.
Conservation International has adopted “hot spots” as the basis of its global
strategy. Earth, it reckons, has 25 hot spots, including…
