Despite being the most numerous and widely distributed class in the animal kingdom, insects remain vastly understudied. For every human on Earth, there are an estimated 1.4 billion insects, collectively outweighing us 70 times over. Yet, most conservation focus is reserved for charismatic species like bees and butterflies, leaving the majority of insect life poorly …
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A recent scientific assessment has revealed that global wildlife populations have plummeted by an average of 73% over the past 50 years, driven by human activity and ecosystem degradation. The WWF and Zoological Society of London’s Living Planet Report shows that Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced the sharpest declines, with a 95% fall …
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The recent emergence of two new coalitions, the More Than Human Rights (Moth) project and Animals in the Room (Air), marks a significant step in the global campaign advocating for legal rights and political representation for ecosystems and species.
Protecting and restoring forests stands as a highly efficient and economical strategy to mitigate carbon emissions, a crucial step in addressing global warming. Since the third UN climate change summit in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, several mechanisms have been trialed to fund deforestation reduction and forest restoration.
Half of biodiversity in forests lives belowground. These organisms are tiny but their importance to the ecosystem is enormous. In one teaspoon of forest soil there are thousands of species and billions of individual organisms.
A team of researchers from Switzerland are using drones to monitor the health of the rainforest. The project has reached the finals of the global XPRIZE Rainforest competition which encourages the development of technology to measure and monitor the rainforest ecosystem.
COP15 is the United Nations conference which aims to lay out a plan to tackle the ‘unsustainable rate’ of biodiversity loss. Scientists, rights advocates and delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Montreal, Canada to tackle this issue.
Almost half of the Earth’s surface must be protected to stop the biodiversity crisis, according to a new report published in the journal Science.
