Although threats to global biodiversity are well known, slowing current rates of biodiversity loss remains a challenge. The Aichi targets set out 20 goals on which the international community should act to alleviate biodiversity decline, 1 of which (Target 1) aims to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity. Although conventional indicators for Target 1 are of low spatial and temporal coverage, conservation culturomics metrics show how biodiversity awareness can be quantified at the global scale. Following methods used for the Living Planet Index, we devised a species awareness index (SAI) to measure change in species awareness based on Wikipedia views. We calculated this index at the page level for 41,197 species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) across 10 Wikipedia languages and >2 billion views from 1 July 2015 to 30 March 2020. Bootstrapped indices for the page‐level SAI showed that overall awareness of biodiversity increased marginally over time, although there were differences among taxonomic classes and languages. Among taxonomic classes, overall awareness increased fastest for reptiles and slowest for amphibians. Among languages, overall species awareness increased fastest for Japanese and slowest for Chinese and German users. Although awareness of species as a whole increased and was significantly higher for traded species, from January 2016 through January 2020, change in awareness appeared not to be strongly related to whether the species is traded or is a pollinator. As a data source for public biodiversity awareness, the SAI could be integrated into the Conservation International Biodiversity Engagement Indicator.

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物种意识指数作为公共生物多样性意识的保护文化指标

尽管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的速度仍然是一个挑战。爱知县的目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1个目标（目标1）旨在提高公众对生物多样性重要性的认识。尽管针对目标1的常规指标的时空覆盖率较低，但是保护文化指标显示了如何在全球范围内量化生物多样性意识。按照用于“生命星球指数”的方法，我们设计了一种物种意识指数（SAI），以根据Wikipedia的观点来衡量物种意识的变化。我们在10种Wikipedia语言的国际自然保护联盟（IUCN）列出的41,197种物种的页面级别上计算了该索引，并且> 从2015年7月1日到2020年3月30日，有20亿的浏览量。页面级SAI的自举指数显示，尽管生物分类学和语言有所不同，但总体上对生物多样性的认识随时间而略有增加。在分类学类别中，爬行动物的整体意识提高最快，两栖动物的总体意识增长最慢。在各种语言中，日语的总体物种意识提高最快，而中文和德语的用户则最慢。尽管对物种整体的了解有所增加，并且对交易物种的认识大大提高，但从2016年1月到2020年1月，意识的变化似乎与该物种是贸易物种还是传粉媒介没有密切关系。作为公众生物多样性意识的数据来源，