Global extinctions are rarer than commonly believed and the extinction debate is too narrowly focused on pin-up images of charismatic birds and mammals, an Australian zoologist says.
Instead Professor Nigel Stork, of the University of Melbourne, urges greater focus on threats facing invertebrates and local extinctions.
Stork says statements about "100 extinctions a day" have become accepted, cited by organisations such as the United Nations and repeated in the popular media.
But Stork believes the science does not back this.
"The truth at the moment is we don't have enough information to talk about hundreds of species dying out," says Stork, the head of the university's School of Resource Management and Geography.
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