Threats to global biodiversity are well-known, but slowing currents rates of biodiversity loss remains an ongoing challenge. The Aichi Targets set out 20 goals on which the international community should act to alleviate biodiversity decline, one of which (Target 1) aimed to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity. Whilst conventional indicators for Target 1 are of low spatial and temporal coverage, conservation culturomics has demonstrated how biodiversity awareness can be quantified at the global scale. Following the Living Planet Index methodology, here we introduced the Species Awareness Index (SAI), an index of changing species awareness on Wikipedia. We calculated this index at the page level for 41,197 IUCN species across 10 Wikipedia languages, incorporating over 2 billion views. Bootstrapped indices for the page level SAI show that overall awareness of biodiversity is marginally increasing, although there are differences among taxonomic classes and languages. Among taxonomic classes, overall awareness of reptiles is increasing fastest, and amphibians slowest. Among languages, overall species awareness for the Japanese Wikipedias is increasing fastest, and the Chinese and German Wikipedias slowest. Although awareness of species on Wikipedia as a whole is increasing, and is significantly higher in traded species, over the period 2016-2020 change in interest appears not to be strongly related to the trade of species or animal pollinators. As a data source for public biodiversity awareness Wikipedia could be integrated into the Biodiversity Engagement Indicator, thereby incorporating a more direct link to biodiversity itself.

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物种意识指数（SAI）：维基百科衍生的自然生态保护措施，旨在提高公众对生物多样性的认识

对全球生物多样性的威胁是众所周知的，但减缓目前生物多样性丧失速度仍然是一个持续的挑战。爱知指标确定了国际社会应采取行动减轻生物多样性下降的20个目标，其中一项（目标1）旨在提高公众对生物多样性重要性的认识。目标1的常规指标虽然时空覆盖率较低，但保护文化已证明如何在全球范围内量化生物多样性意识。遵循“生命星球指数”方法，在这里，我们介绍了物种意识指数（SAI），该指数是Wikipedia上不断变化的物种意识的指数。我们在10种Wikipedia语言的41197种IUCN物种的页面级别上计算了该索引，其中包含超过20亿的浏览量。页面级SAI的自举索引显示，尽管生物分类类别和语言之间存在差异，但总体上对生物多样性的意识正在略有提高。在分类学类别中，对爬行动物的整体认识增长最快，而两栖动物则最慢。在各种语言中，日本Wikipedia的总体物种意识增长最快，而中文和德国Wikipedia的物种意识最慢。尽管整个Wikipedia上对物种的意识正在提高，并且在交易物种中的知名度明显提高，但在2016-2020年期间，兴趣的变化似乎与物种或动物传粉媒介的贸易没有密切关系。作为公共生物多样性意识的数据源，维基百科可以整合到生物多样性参与指标中，从而与生物多样性本身建立更直接的联系。