Despite eco-friendly farming efforts in UK, populations of invertebrates continue to drop

A team of ecological modelers from the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology has found that despite efforts by officials and farmers in the U.K. to protect them, populations and diversity of invertebrates is still dropping around croplands. In their study, reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group analyzed citizen science data on more than 1,500 invertebrate species in the U.K.