Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks
2022-10-26 15:37
In 2014, as temperatures topped 40° Celsius, or 104° Fahrenheit, in eastern Australia, half of the region’s black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) population perished, with thousands of the bats succumbing to the heat in one day. This die-off is only one example of the catastrophic loss of wildlife unfolding globally. On average, wildlife populations tracked […]
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