Biodiversity Catastrophe

[New] The risk of silent extinctions, where species go extinct without even being noticed, is one of the reasons behind the Australian Academy of Science's Decadal Plan for Taxonomy, which has led to the ambitious goal to document all Australian species in the next 25 years.
[New] Half of all species worldwide will be facing extinction by the end of the century without urgent action.
[New] Urgent action is needed to save life on Earth in response to a new global assessment revealing that nearly 27% of over 120,000 analyzed plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction.
[New] Scientists have warned that climate change and other major disruptions - such as habitat loss and deforestation - could be causing Earth's first mass extinction since the one in which non-avian dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago.
[New] More than 500 land mammal species are on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost over the next 20 years, according to scientists who have warned that the sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, and may herald the collapse of human civilisation.
[New] The global population of wild species has fallen by 60% in the last 40 years, with one million species now at risk of extinction.
[New] Climate change is the sixth mass extinction, which threatens to eliminate 20 to 50% of all species on Earth within this century.
[New] One million natural species are threatened with extinction, many in a few decades, as three-quarters of the land-based environment on earth and about 66% of the marine environment are impacted by human activity.
[New] Humanity will have given up on planet Earth if world leaders cannot reach an agreement this year to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and destruction of life-supporting ecosystems, the United Nation's new biodiversity chief has warned.
[New] The pace at which biodiversity is being lost is unprecedented with currently nearly 1 million species, or 25% of the assessed animals and plants, being threatened by extinction in the coming decades.
[New] Many species in Wales are in decline: 666 species are threatened with extinction and 73 species have already been lost.
[New] About 389 out of 604 American bird species are at risk of extinction if global temperatures rise by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.
[New] Campaign groups such as Extinction Rebellion warn of 'unprecedented global emergency', 'climate breakdown' and 'mass extinction'.
[New] Africa's carbon dioxide emissions increased 12 fold in roughly 50 years, and by the end of the next decade its organic carbon emissions will make up 50% of global emissions.
[New] Rapid, large changes in global temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns will increase the vulnerability of many species to climate change and may lead to the extinction of entire species.
[New] Some 40 per cent of primate species in West and central Africa are now threatened with extinction, and the conservation status of seven primate species have become more precarious in the past year.
[New] One in eight of all Earth's plants, insects and animals are at risk of extinction, many within decades, because of human activity.
[New] 886 species of amphibians, 436 species of birds, and 376 species of mammals are predicted to have a high increase in their risk of extinction.
[New] Scientists are warning that the planet is now in the midst of a sixth mass extinction of species driven by human activities.
[New] Current UK agricultural practices are harming the natural environment, with many species of wildlife facing risk of extinction over the next decade.
[New] At the end of last year, scientists announced that three bird species went extinct, and there are even more species that could vanish in 2019.
[New] The destruction of ecosystems means a million species (500,000 animals and plants, and 500,000 insects) will be threatened with extinction over the next 100 years.
$44trn - more than half of global GDP - is exposed to risks from nature loss and global warming.

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Last updated: 21 September 2020