The following issues and recommended actions are made understanding full well that burgeoning world population growth and the associated exponential increase of industrial exploitation of natural resources and energy use is causing an ever-increasing destruction of the world's biodiversity. Knowledge and understanding of biodiversity is essential for the conservation, management, and sustained use of ecosystems. Recent research demonstrates that our catalogues of biodiversity are seriously inadequate (as much as 90per thousand of species diversity is unknown to science) and urgently need to be improved, so that science can place proper value on our natural resources and provide models to predict the consequences of lowered biodiversity. Thus, natural history collections are important for the study of biodiversity.