Biodiversity: gloomy scenarios
Projections of global change impacts on biodiversity show continuing and, in many cases, accelerating species extinctions, loss of natural habitat and changes in the distribution and abundance of species over the 21st century.
This is one of the key conclusions from the third Global Biodiversity Outlook report recently published by Diversitas and UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
In particular, pressures on the global environment are increasing the risk of crossing tipping points in which ecosystems change rapidly from one state to another with devastating consequences for biodiversity.
Tags: Biodiversity
