{"id":8042,"date":"2020-02-12T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"big-international-gathering-will-home-in-on-migratory-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/12\/big-international-gathering-will-home-in-on-migratory-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Big International Gathering Will Home In On Migratory Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From\nwhale sharks to Monarch butterflies, many animals are hardwired to migrate\nalong set routes in search of food or a breeding area\u2014and in some cases they\u2019ve\nbeen doing this for tens of millions of years. The Arctic tern migrates the\nlongest distances of any animal, flying over 25,000 km each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe last 150 years or so, human activity and associated pollution, and\nhuman-induced climate change, have been reducing and altering habitats that had\npreviously changed only very slowly over millennia. Many migratory species rely\non wetlands as stepping stones en route to their final destination, but these\necosystems, like many others, are coming under increasing pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nhabitats change or shrink\u2014North America is thought to have lost nearly 3\nbillion birds since 1970, including many migratory ones\u2014the biodiversity\nemergency has reached a tipping point. \u201cThe rate of species loss is\nexponentially higher than at any time in the past 10 million years,\u201d says\nUnited Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\nstakes are high,\u201d says Joyce Msuya, Deputy Executive Director of the United\nNations Environment Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe targets we set and the level of political will that we mobilize will determine whether or not we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals\u2014the very highest ideals humanity has set. And importantly, this is the year when we overcome the silos because the biodiversity agenda is a climate agenda, and a climate agenda is a biodiversity agenda. Species loss exemplifies these inter-linkages. If we destroy the ecosystems and habitats that species need to thrive, then we destroy our own support system, putting many of the Goals beyond reach.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/big-international-gathering-will-home-migratory-species\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment From whale sharks to Monarch butterflies, many animals are hardwired to migrate along set routes in search of food or a breeding area\u2014and in some cases they\u2019ve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8043,"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":[358,1006,1535],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-climate-change","tag-migratory-species","tag-whale-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}