Heather Koldewey of the Zoological Society London’s “desire to source and share hopeful marine solutions arose from her concern about the tendency for scientists to publish problem analyses rather than conservation successes”. This view was shared by the late Navjot Sodhi and a team of prestigious biologists. “Widespread pessimism prevails in the conservation community”, they wrote in a 2011 issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution. “What successes have been won are rarely highlighted or fail to attract wide attention.”
Source: Elin Kelsey, The Rise of Ocean Optimism (Smithsonian Magazine)