19 Dec New paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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Excited to see our new review article “Language barriers in conservation: consequences and solutions” now published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution! This is an outcome based on 5 years of work at our translatE project, supported by over 130 collaborators around the world.
This review first describes, with evidence based on a growing body of literature, three types of language barriers in evidence-based conservation: barriers to (i) the generation of evidence; (ii) the global synthesis of multilingual evidence; and (iii) the local application of English-language evidence.
We then provide a checklist of solutions that can be adopted by individuals, institutions, journals, conferences, and funders for overcoming three types of language barriers and facilitating evidence-based conservation, based on the suggestions proposed in a total of 21 articles.
We also provide a (non-exhaustive!) list of examples of AI tools that can be used to overcome language barriers in science and discuss the pros and cons of using those AI tools.
Read the review here.