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Climate Brief Crisis: 'From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles-insects are vanishing' [1]
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Date: 2022-12-11
The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide
Nature is under threat as never before, but what does that actually mean? We explain what is at stake – and why action at Cop15 is more crucial than ever
life on Earth: 8.7 million species, according to the most commonly cited figure
There is greater certainty about the decline of biodiversity that human behaviour is driving, with species dying off as much as 1,000 times more frequently than before the arrival of humans 60m years ago, as one study suggests.
“Humanity will eventually pay a very high price for the decimation of the only assemblage of life that we know of in the universe,” scientists Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo wrote in a 2017 paper, warning of a sixth mass extinction of life on Earth. www.theguardian
Climate Brief: COP15 could decide "the fate of the entire living world" Angmar Links: Animal rights: Every year around Diwali (Autumn between Oct-Nov) the nocturnal birds of prey are hunted down by poachers and black magic practitioners – or “tantriks” – for use in occult practices. “Driven by religious myths and superstitious beliefs tied to them, owls are poached for their body parts such as talons, skulls, bones, feathers, meat and blood, which are then used in talismans, black magic, traditional medicines, etc,” said Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, a nonprofit organisation that rescues and rehabilitates wildlife in distress. “The domestic trade of owls is highly lucrative, and it is appalling that the festival of Diwali is used as a front by wildlife traffickers to peddle endangered birds for monetary gain.” www.google.com/… .
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