A recent study reveals a worldwide downtrend in visits to national parks. The authors show that typical decline started between 1981 and 1991, and that this lack of interest is potentially hurting current conservation efforts. According to the authors a possible cause is what they call videophilia:

“The new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media.”

So in effect, research aiming for better video search methodology is hurting biodiversity conservation. Pfff.