 Eliminativists believe “biodiversity” has mislead conservation, as the concept and term was designed to be exhaustive of human interests in the environment—and it cannot succeed in this task. The idea that biodiversity was designed to represent all human values of the environment appears in Maier’s work as “the biodiversity project”, Santana argues that biodiversity is just an intermediary for “ecological value”, and Morar, Toadvine, and Bohannan argue that biodiversity “does not exhaust what we value in the natural world” (2015: 24). Santana (2014) provides a clear presentation of this belief and uses it to argue that biodiversity is a misleading and unnecessary step in conservation planning. Biodiversity acts in conservation as an intermediary between all the ways we value the environment and the implementation of surrogate measures for these values, which are then used in conservation planning. Santana suggests we should remove the step of considering biodiversity and directly represent our values in the environment without considering diversity (see also SEP  conservation biology  entry)