{"id":2866,"date":"2019-06-03T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"africa-biodiversity-endangered-by-man-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/03\/africa-biodiversity-endangered-by-man-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Biodiversity Endangered By Man And Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By The EastAfrican<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A UN study published recently paints a gloomy\npicture of the future of humanity as unprecedented pollution and decimation of\necosystems push more than one million species to the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doomsday scenario is nowhere closer home\nthan in Africa where arable land, forests, seas, lakes and rivers are under\nthreat from human activities, threatening the natural balance that ensures\nplant and animal species live in harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity\nand Ecosystem Service is the most comprehensive study of the future of living\nbeings, having been compiled by 145 scientists who looked for the common thread\nin 15,000 research documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The health of ecosystems on which we and\nall other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever&#8230;we are\neroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security,\nhealth and quality of life worldwide,&#8221; says Robert Watson, the chairperson\nof Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem\nServices (IPBES).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the trend continues, the assessment said, 40\nper cent of amphibian species, a third of marine mammals and a third of\nreef-forming corals will become extinct\u2014not existing in their natural\nsettings\u2014by 2070.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already 85 per cent of wetlands have been lost\nas has two-thirds of the ocean area and three-quarters of the land surface.\nAlready 32 million hectares of tropical forests disappeared between 2010 and\n2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Africa-biodiversity-endangered-by-man-and-climate-change\/3073694-5141078-52xtumz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The EastAfrican A UN study published recently paints a gloomy picture of the future of humanity as unprecedented pollution and decimation of ecosystems push more than one million species&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}