Over one million animal and plant species are now at risk of extinction.
NATURE IS MORE at risk now than at any other time in human history with over one million animal and plant species in danger of extinction, according to a UN report on biodiversity.
Changes in nature caused by decades of poisoning the Earth’s forests, oceans, soil and air threaten society “at least as much as climate change,” said Robert Watson, who chaired the 132-nation meeting which approved a summary report for policymakers. For the first time, the UN body has ranked the top five causes of species lost and the degradation of nature. Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a “mass extinction” event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure the rate at which life-forms are disappearing is deeply alarming, scientists have concluded.
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