# Protect diversity across the visible and microscopic world Ecological evidence and proposed commitments. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment reported that roughly one million animal and plant species were threatened with extinction. Its account identifies pressures beyond climate change alone, including changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation, pollution, and invasive alien species. Here, invasive alien species means organisms introduced beyond their native ranges; it does not mean extraterrestrial beings. Protecting biodiversity is a substantive ecological task even without the Lichen cosmology. Canonical page: https://givegigs.com/wiki/necro-chapter-lichen-biodiversity Last updated: 2026-11-09T18:58:12.584Z Parent topic: [necromancer-storyworld](https://givegigs.com/wiki/necromancer-storyworld) ## Contents - [Overview](#wiki-section-overview-1) - [Chapter notes](#wiki-section-chapter-notes-2) - [Dossier section](#wiki-section-dossier-link-3) ## Overview Ecological evidence and proposed commitments. This page expands the “Protect diversity across the visible and microscopic world” chapter in the storyworld collection. ## Chapter notes The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment reported that roughly one million animal and plant species were threatened with extinction. Its account identifies pressures beyond climate change alone, including changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation, pollution, and invasive alien species. Here, invasive alien species means organisms introduced beyond their native ranges; it does not mean extraterrestrial beings. Protecting biodiversity is a substantive ecological task even without the Lichen cosmology. The scope includes less visible relationships and organisms as well as charismatic animals: soils, waters, fungal communities, microbial diversity, and the habitats that sustain them. The founder’s wish to include unusual bacteria and viruses becomes a commitment to understanding biological diversity and ecological context. It does not require spreading pathogens or keeping every infection circulating. Conservation, disease prevention, and appropriate stewardship of biological knowledge need to be considered together. The WHO One Health approach explicitly connects the health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems. That provides an evidence-based organizing principle for Necromancer’s planetary commitments. Its usefulness does not depend on proving a shared psychic field. The company can ask whether a decision protects health across these relationships, instead of evaluating success only by what an individual patron gains. The proposed operating plan gives this commitment a decision process: assess resource demands and waste, identify ecological effects of proposed work, seek relevant expertise, and publish actual conservation contributions and limitations. A species list, a sequence archive, or a donation receipt should not be represented as the restoration of an ecosystem. Measurable stewardship needs its own outcomes and review. ## Dossier section [Open this exact section in the Necromancer dossier](/necromancer#lichen-biodiversity). The original chapter status is “Ecological evidence and proposed commitments.” ## Sources - [Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: findings](https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment) - [One Health](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/one-health) --- This article is collaboratively maintained. Check the canonical page and cited sources for the latest context.