Press "Enter" to skip to content

Biodiversity Is Critical for a Healthy Ecosystem — But Saving One Species at a Time Is the Wrong Strategy

By Undark

 

Any approach to saving individual animal species that fails to conserve ecosystems at large scales will fail sentient and nonsentient life forms alike.

By John Reid

How should humans care for the beings that share the planet with us? This is one of the defining questions of our time.

Between 1970 and 2018, wild animal populations have fallen by an average of 69%, according to the World Wildlife Fund, due to factors including habitat loss, overhunting and fishing, pollution and climate change.

In that same period, the human population has more than doubled and, by one estimate, now weighs nearly 10 times as much as all undomesticated mammals put together.

 

 

 

 

 

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (childrenshealthdefense.org)

 

Home | Caravan to Midnight (zutalk.com)

[metaslider id=18634

We Need Your Help To Keep Caravan To Midnight Going

Please Consider Donating To Help Keep Independent Media Independent

Breaking News: