Your morning coffee could hasten species' extinction

Your morning coffee could hasten species' extinction SciReports

Around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, according to the recent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Spanning more than 5,000 species in 188 countries, the research finds consumption in Europe, North America, and East Asia primarily drives species extinction risk in other countries. Affected species include the Nombre de Dios Streamside Frog in Honduras and the Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat in Madagascar.

In 16 countries, concentrated in Africa, this extinction-risk footprint is driven by offshore consumption. In 96 countries—around half of those studied—domestic consumption is the greatest driver of the extinction-risk footprint.Consumption of products and services from the food, beverage and agriculture sectors is the greatest driver of consumption-driven extinction risk, together constituting 39 percent of the global extinction-risk footprint, followed by consumption of goods and services from the construction sector .

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