According to the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released in 2019 by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) at UNESCO, the main global drivers of biodiversity loss are climate change, invasive species, over-exploitation of natural resources, pollution and urbanization.
Of the 8 million animal and plant species on Earth, 1 million face the threat of extinction and threatens more than 40% of amphibians, 33% of coral reefs and a 68% average decline in the population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish since 1970.
Since 1980 the planet lost 100 million hectares of tropical forest and the United Nations have a strategy to regenerate ecosystems, conserve the harmony of our ecosystems where people learn to live in harmony with other living species and the British Government have a plan to reintroduce wild animals including wolves, lynx, beavers and wild boar to restore species hunted to extinction.
Sounds a great idea at first but then when you think about it, do we really want to reintroduce predators such as Lynx and Wolves back into our wildlife, the farmers are already bleating about foxes attacking their livestock, i can't think they would be happy about opportunistic predators such as the Lynx bothering
their sheep and if a pack of wolves decide lamb or chicken was on the menu it will be carnage.
Secondly, they were hunted to extinction the last time they were here and idiot hunters will be wetting themselves in the excitement at the thought of bagging a Wolf in their own backyard.
Beavers and Boars i am fine with but reintroducing dangerous species which have not been native here for centuries may need to be put back on the drawing board.
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