For instance, humans need food to survive. More than three-quarters of the world’s food crops rely, at least in part, on the activities of bees, wasps, butterflies and other pollinators, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The new U.N. report found that 10 percent of insect species are under threat.
Jessica Ware, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, said the situation for insects could be even more dire than recent research shows because scientists don’t have a good grasp of the number of insect species. In many cases, these changes are working in tandem to destroy animal and insect habitats or force species to migrate to other regions, where they may be ill-suited to survive.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services convened in Paris last week to finalize details of the assessment — the first to be released by the group since 2005.
MACH This is sad. We need to do better, people.
MACH Democrats are under extinction with the crap they shovel.
MACH One of the problems is how damn long it took the 'biodiversity' geniuses to figure that out. By the end of the century maybe they'll figure out and report on dwindling potable water, and human psychological breakdown due to overcrowding, disease and starvation.
MACH This is so sad. Seems like humans are on a fast track to wipe everything off the face of the earth. 😢
MACH And countries and private citizens keep sending money to stop it... AND NOTHING CHANGES!!!