Publisher : PEMSEA - Tropical Coasts
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Publication year : 2008
Thematic : Biodiversity
Language : English
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News about the global financial crisis is always in the front page of newspapers. Bomb attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are often television news breakers. World attention is focused on the humanitarian implications of conflicts in the Middle East. Effects of climate change are favorite topics of video documentaries. Buried under these global issues and other problems such as terrorism, high crimes, and corruption is a lesser known crisis with far greater implications than anyone can imagine — biodiversity loss. We are losing our biodiversity at unprecedented rates due to deforestation, large-scale mining, wildlife hunting, illegal wildlife trading, and other irresponsible human activities. Biodiversity loss poses a significant threat to our food security, health, livelihood, and the earth’s overall capacity to provide for our and future generations’ needs. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment published in 2005 reported that humans have increased extinction levels dramatically over the past decades at 100 to 1,000 times the normal background rate.In Southeast Asia alone, 1,312 out of 64,800 species are endangered.
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