Museum collections and biodiversity conservation by Henry McGhie

Where are natural history collections in the UK?

Where are natural history collections in the UK? UK museums contain roughly 140 million natural history specimens, including mammal and bird study skins, taxidermy mounts, bones, pinned insects, dried molluscs and other invertebrates, dried plants, lichens and fungi, specimens on microscope slides and preserved in alcohol/ formalin, fossils, rocks and minerals.

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Museum collections and biodiversity conservation by Henry McGhie

Published on Aug 12, 2019

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How can UK museum collections effectively support the conservation of global biodiversity, through supporting biodiversity-related research, management and policy? The study was framed around ‘One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biodiversity’ (Sutherland et al. 2009). The aim of that study was to compile a list of 100 questions that, if answered, would have the greatest impact on the conservation of biological diversity worldwide. The questions were developed by a team of representatives of the world’s major conservation organisations, professional scientific societies, and universities, and the work was intended to be of use to organisations wishing to support biodiversity research programmes effectively.

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References and further reading

Research based on natural history collections benefits science and society

Museums fit for the future

Museum collections are windows on evolutionary processes

Museum collections and ecosystem services: An example

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Museum collections as tools for studying climate change

How are natural history collections useful for research? An example

Museums are the original Big Data

The State of Nature: an ongoing decline

Museums and the conservation of global biodiversity

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