Odd how these studies and the expeditions finding new species all seem to have this common thread: either they, or their area, is a suddenly 'threatened as never before' species or habitat.
Oil palm plantations? Find 50+ new species living there!
"Global Warming" threatening Antarctic ice shelves? Quick; let's find a few dozen new species dependent on them!
It is no coincidence that most of said expeditions & studies are funded by aggressive, agenda-driven environmental organizations...though their motives are pure and unquentionable, since they don't take money from the evil petro-agro-chemical industrial complex.
Well put.