Replacing “parachute science” with “global science” in ecology and conservation biology

Biodiversity remains relatively unknown and understudied in many parts of the developing world with significant information gaps, stark contrast to areas developed world, where knowledge about biodiversity can approach encyclopedic. Access resources, such as funding, data, information, expertise, biological collections (often collected by colonial-era scientists from across world), is often quite limited for developing-world scientists. The life a scientist therefore one manifold dilemmas challenges, well numerous opportunities. Although collaborations exist between developed-world scientists, too those are not deep or permanent, relegated subordinate role. focus this contribution on providing suggestions how open build access resources Everyone benefits if work together collaboratively pose interesting novel questions, generate new update existing carry out analyses, arrive at insights interpretations. In way, science community replace “parachute” “global science.”