Hidden biodiversity in everyday parks

Significant new species can still be found in near‑urban recreational reserves; routine recreational use and decades of human presence do not guarantee exhaustive biodiversity inventories. That means conservation priorities and survey effort should explicitly include anthropogenic green spaces and mobilize citizen naturalists for targeted searches. — Recognizing that ordinary parks can harbor globally rare species changes how governments allocate survey resources, zoning decisions, and development/permit reviews around urban green spaces.