Reversing the trend will require nations to jointly confront the loss of biodiversity, along with climate change, the report says.
By Darryl Fears Darryl Fears Reporter focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issues affecting wildlife Email Bio Follow May 6 at 9:45 AM One million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, with alarming implications for human survival, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
Nearly 150 authors from 50 nations worked for three years to compile the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services — a panel with 132 member nations, including the United States. Representatives of each member nation signed off on the findings.Moe Flannery of the California Academy of Sciences inspected a dead gray whale in Tiburon, Calif.
Global trade has introduced invasive species to countries with devastating effects, such as crop-destroying stink bugs and tree-killing emerald ash borer in the United States. Travelers exploring forests in other countries have returned home with microbes that cause diseases lethal to animals, such as the white nose fungus that is killing millions of bats whose immune systems have not adapted to fight it.
Nations that signed off on the study’s findings acknowledged that opposition from rich people invested in the status quo is expected. On land, “more than a third of the world’s land surface and nearly 75 percent of freshwater resources are now devoted to crop or livestock production,” the report says. Farms that cut into forests that trap carbon have expanded exponentially, increasing crop production by 300 percent since 1970.
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