How did we let this happen? Distraction? False priorities.
The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world and despite nature struggling against all odds to survive, more than one in seven native species face extinction and more than 40% are in decline.
I have personally seen this decline with my own eyes, in my early teens I can remember tadpoles, newts, frogs, many many birds and nests, more birds of prey and this is just the beginning of a long list I have noticed in decline.
The UK is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries – in the bottom 10% globally and last among the G7 group of nations, new data shows.
It has an average of about half its biodiversity left, far below the global average of 75%, a study has found.
The new tool for assessing biodiversity, known as the Biodiversity Intactness Index, estimates the percentage of natural biodiversity that remains across the world and in individual countries.
The UK’s low position in the league table is linked to the industrial revolution, which transformed the landscape, the researchers said.
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Sources: BBC and WWF and IUCN.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58859105
https://www.wwf.org.uk/future-of-UK-nature