Ambitious targets intended to slam the brakes on our current mass extinction may already be slipping out of reach barely a year after they were established, new research suggests.
in December last year may already be out of date, as the extent of this lag was not taken into account in projections of future losses.
"There is wide recognition that time is short for the integrated, ambitious actions needed to stop biodiversity loss by 2050," Natural History Museum zoologist Richard Cornford and colleagues."This work shows that time is even shorter than had been thought."explain today's trends in bird and mammal population sizes better than recent impacts. Their findings imply we will not see the overall consequences of changes we implement now for at least a decade in most cases, and until then we will witness already locked-in effects of past land use and climate change on species abundance..
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