آماره‌هایی از تنوّع گونه‌ای حشرات ایران در کنوانسیون تنوّع زیستی

During the last few decades, some important indicators of the earth's biological diversity, including species diversity, have crossed the standard threshold and their interaction has created serious crises for the earth and the sustainable life of humans. Among the two million valid species described in the world, about 28% are at risk of extinction. Global evidence and documentation show that overexploitation is 37% of the causes of this disaster. Destruction and change of use 32%, diseases 2%, loss of habitats 13%, pollution 4%, invasive alien species 5% and direct climate change 7% have an effect on species extinction and biodiversity reduction. Due to the deterioration of biodiversity 30 years ago, several countries, including Iran, united and created the "Biodiversity Convention" and considered a program with several strategic and operational goals for the years 2011 to 2020, which became known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Nonetheless, at the end of the period, it became clear that none of the countries of the world could achieve all the goals of the program. Therefore, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted. This historical framework is based on the previous strategic plans of the convention, but it has drawn a path of fundamental and ambitious change to live in a world in harmony with nature. This goal will be achieved by accomplishing 23 goals by 2030 and four visions by 2050. Iran has more than 3% of the world's species diversity with about 1.1% of the land area. Iran's insect species diversity is significant with about 25,000 species compared to about one million species in the world. The data extraction, cleaning and inclusion of species diversity statistics of insects and other invertebrates of Iran in the national reports submitted to the International Organization for Biological Diversity Convention has grown exponentially in the last five years. The official statistics of Iran's species diversity has increased sixfold since 2000, from less than 9000 species to approximately 54000 species. According to comparative estimates, this number should be about 59,000, among which about 700 species of insects in Iran are under the threat of extinction. There is no official statistics on the number of invasive alien insect species or endemic ones. Almost all species diversity of insects and other invertebrates and micro-organisms of Iran are classified in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categories of "Data Deficient" or "Not Evaluated" and there is a serious need for the creation a data mining analytical data warehouse, verification and development of systematic and process-oriented statistics of the species diversity of the country's insects.