#biodiversity

environmentind@diasp.org
sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
ira_gee@pod.geraspora.de

#climate #health #biodiversity #nature #society #media #press #ClimateChange

Today medical, nursing and public health journals across the world have simultaneously published a joint editorial calling for world leaders to take emergency action to transform societies and limit climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect health. The editorial will be published in over 220 leading journals. Never have so many journals combined to publish the same editorial.

<"Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said: "The risks posed by climate change could dwarf those of any single disease. The COVID-19 pandemic will end, but there is no vaccine for the climate crisisā€œ>

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-emergency-action-climate-nature-crisis.html

wazoox@diasp.eu

A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out

#environment #biodiversity #collapse

Pollinators are under threat. A meta-analysis reveals that the combination of agrochemicals, parasites and malnutrition has a cumulative negative effect on bees, and that pesticideā€“pesticide interactions increase bee mortality.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02079-4

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
xanni@diaspora.glasswings.com

Itā€™s no secret the worldā€™s wildlife is in dire straits. New data shows a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest killed more than 1 billion sea creatures in June, while Australiaā€™s devastating bushfires of 2019-2020 killed or displaced 3 billion animals. Indeed, 1 million species face extinction worldwide.

These numbers are overwhelming, but a serious global commitment can help reverse current tragic rates of biodiversity loss.

This week the UNā€™s Convention on Biological Diversity released a draft of its newest ten-year global plan. Often considered to be the Paris Agreement of biodiversity, the new plan aims to galvanise planetary scale action to achieve a world ā€œliving in harmony with natureā€ by 2050.

But if the plan goes ahead in its current form, it will fall short in safeguarding the wonder of our natural world. This is primarily because it doesnā€™t legally bind nations to it, risking the same mistakes made by the last ten-year plan, which didnā€™t stop biodiversity decline.

Repeating mistakes: why the plan to protect the worldā€™s wildlife falls short

#nature #wildlife #biodiversity #conservation