Biological Annihilation

francisbaud · Post by **francisbaud** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:31 pm

Thanks for bringing this subject to light, it's sad that an environmental catastrophe is taking place with so little means deployed to save the remaining species.

twopass · Post by **twopass** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:17 pm

An updated assessment released today by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature found that 27% of evaluated species of plants and animals around the globe are threatened with extinction.

The new update to the “Red List of Threatened Species” identifies 32,441 species as threatened with extinction out of 120,372 for which there is enough information to determine their conservation status.

“This assessment shows that 1 in 4 mammals are facing extinction, and although we don’t prefer to think of ourselves as animals, we humans are mammals,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We have to take bold and rapid action to reduce the huge damage we’re doing to the planet if we’re going to save whales, frogs, lemurs and ultimately ourselves.”

Last year the United Nations estimated that 1 million species worldwide face extinction if humans don’t act quickly to save them. Scientists around the globe are calling for countries to preserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030 and half by 2050 to abate the extinction crisis.

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/ ... 020-07-09/