![]() In recent years, natural ecosystems have lost about half of their area, mainly to create farmland. It also tells us the kind of world we are leaving for future generations. Reading it is a chilling experience as it spells out the appalling damage humans have caused during the past four decades. The abundance of native species in most major land habitats has fallen by a fifth since 1990 It is the largest and most comprehensive assessment on the health of nature ever published. More than 450 scientists worked on the Global Assessment Report document over a three-year period. The explosion caused such global destruction that more than half the species on Earth became extinct. The last time such a major extinction of life happened on Earth was 65 million years ago when an asteroid crashed into the Yucatan area of Mexico. The 1,800-page study shows that we and future generations of species are seriously at risk, unless firm action is taken to reverse this trend. ![]() The publication in Paris of the Global Assessment Report on May 6th last confirmed that we are now living in the sixth-largest extinction in 3.8 billion years of Earth’s history.
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