{"id":5109,"date":"2019-09-05T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"climate-change-threatens-human-well-being-through-biodiversity-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/05\/climate-change-threatens-human-well-being-through-biodiversity-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Threatens Human Well-Being Through Biodiversity Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\u00a0Amani Mabano<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All organisms modify their\nenvironment, and so do humans. As the human population has grown and the power\nof technology has expanded, the intensity and nature of this alteration has\ndrastically increased. Most of all ecosystems are dominated by humans, and no\necosystem on Earth\u2019s surface is free of prevalent human influence (Vitousek et\nal., 1997).&nbsp; This is an Epoch called Anthropocene (Lewis &amp; Maslin,\n2015), where species extinction is happening at unprecedented rates (1,000\ntimes faster than it should without human activities). Thus, humanity is\nresponsible for the sixth mass extinction, the only one caused by a living\norganism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four major anthropogenic\nactivities are key drivers of this biodiversity loss; (i) habitat loss and\nfragmentation, (ii) global climate change (iii) invasive alien species and (iv)\nnatural resource overexploitation (e.g. over-hunting, over-fishing)\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/opinions\/climate-change-threatens-human-well-being-through-biodiversity-loss\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Amani Mabano All organisms modify their environment, and so do humans. As the human population has grown and the power of technology has expanded, the intensity and nature of this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5110,"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-5109","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\/5109","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=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}