We are in the midst of Earth's sixth mass extinction. Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, the UN warns.
Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, as we enter the planet's sixth era of mass extinction, according to a United Nations agency.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity released a draft plan on Monday, which sets global goals to combat the ongoing biodiversity crisis in the coming decades.The convention had set similar targets in 2010, at a summit in Japan. But the world failed to meet most of those 2020 goals -- and is now facing unprecedented extinction rates, threatened ecosystems, and severe consequences for human survival.
Vanishing: The extinction crisis is worse than you think 23:02In total, a million of the world's 8 million species are currently facing extinction, many within decades, the UN warned in 2019. The global rate of species extinction is at least tens of hundreds of times higher than it has been on average over the past 10 million years.The main threats are shrinking habitats, the exploitation of natural resources, climate change and pollution, said the 2019 UN report.
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