“We have now firmly established that there is scientific evidence for the degradation of our nature, of the living world, of species of plants and animals.” IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie on UN’s global biodiversity report
"The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," said Professor Josef Settele, who co-chaired the study launched in Paris on Monday by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services .
Known as the Global Assessment, the report found that up to one million of Earth's estimated eight million plant, insect and animal species are at risk of extinction, many within decades. "The report also tells us that it is not too late to make a difference, but only if we start now at every level from local to global," Watson said in a statement.
The Global Assessment contained a litany of estimates made after a three-year review of some 15,000 scientific papers that showed the profound impact of the rise of a globalised industrial society on the planet over the past half-century.
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