5/11/2021 0 Comments Destiny Guardian Report
Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale report.Intensive agricultures has contributed to the collapse of some animal populations.It found that from the rainforests of central America to the Pacific Ocean, nature is being exploited and destroyed by humans on a scale never previously recorded.Those monitored include high-profile threatened animals such as pandas and polar bears as well as lesser known amphibians and fish.
![]() The figures, the latest available, showed that in all regions of the world, vertebrate wildlife populations are collapsing, falling on average by more than two-thirds since 1970. Without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity, says Prof David Macdonald, at Oxford University. It is comprised of several levels, starting with genes, then individual species, then communities of creatures and finally entire ecosystems, such as forests or coral reefs, where life interplays with the physical environment. The services provided by ecosystems are estimated to be worth trillions of dollars double the worlds GDP. Biodiversity loss in Europe alone is estimated to cost the continent about 3 of its GDP, or 450m (400m) a year. The sixth mass extinction in geological history has already begun, according to some scientists, with billions of individual populations being lost. Researchers call the massive loss of wildlife a biological annihilation. We sit at our desks and compile these statistics but they have real-life implications. Its really hard to communicate how dramatic some of these declines are. Reptiles, fish and amphibians in the region were most negatively affected, driven by the overexploitation of ecosystems, habitat fragmentation and disease. Europe and central Asia recorded a fall of 24, while populations dropped 33 on average in North America. To form the Living Planet Index (LPI), akin to a stock market index of wildlife, more biodiverse parts of the world, such as tropical regions, are given more weighting. Deforestation and the conversion of wild spaces for human food production have largely been blamed for the destruction of Earths web of life. All the indicators of biodiversity loss are heading the wrong way rapidly. As a start, there has got to be regulation to get deforestation out of our supply chain straight away. The species affected include the critically endangered Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River, which is down by 97. Rainforests around the world are subject to overexploitation. We are wrecking our world the one place we call home risking our health, security and survival here on Earth. But above all it will require a change in perspective, he wrote in a collection of essays accompanying the report.
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