(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 21 - Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in history, and the speed of species extinction is accelerating: of the million (a quarter of those known) at risk, 50% could disappear by the end of this century.
This was stated by Ipbes, the intergovernmental scientific policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services, the highest scientific authority on the subject of biodiversity, in the latest report "Assessment Report on the Different Value and Valuation of Nature" presented today in Rome at the Italian headquarters of the European Parliament.
The authors of the report coined the expression "deadspecies walking" for the approximately 500,000 species not yet extinct, but which, due to the destruction and degradation of their available habitats and other factors linked to human activities (over-exploitation, pollution, changes climatic conditions and the diffusion of invasive alien species) see their chances of survival in the long run reduced.
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