Experts
gathered in Paris yesterday to release the UN's first report on biodiversity. It
warns plant and animal species are being lost 10-100 times faster than before.
More
than half a million species on land lack sufficient habitat for their survival.
The oceans are not any better off and species may go extinct within decades.
Nature
is in more trouble now than at any time in human history with extinction
looming over one million species of plants and animals, experts say. That's the
key finding of the United Nations' (UN) first comprehensive report on
biodiversity - the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a
particular habitat.
Conservation
scientists from around the world convened in Paris to issue the report, which
exceeded 1,000 pages.
Researchers
caution that the problem starts with people but that it's not too late to fix
it. You can read the IPBES report here.
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