Deforestation leads to habitat loss while preservation and conservation of the natural forest increase biological diversity.Multiple factors have been reported to be responsible for deforestation and habitat loss,which could either be of human or natural origin.Natural causes of deforestation could be as...
The Unite tions’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) recently reaffirmed a 1989 ban on trading ivory, despite calls from Tanzania and Zambia to lift it. Only 470,000 elephants remain in Africa today – compared to 1.3 million in 1979. While natural habitat loss ...
Loss of Biodiversity:Environmental degradation, such as deforestation,pollution, and habitat destruction, leads to biodiversity loss. This can have long-term effects on ecosystems, reducing their resilience and ability to adapt to change. Climate Change:Through the atmospheric release of greenhouse gases ...
The lockdown is indeed necessary. We all know already that elderly people are more vulnerable to this virus. In the absence of a lockdown, the virus would have spread through the population like wildfire, with low-risk people acting as a stepping-stone for the virus to reach vulnerable peop...
When humans artificially transform the environment, they destroy vegetation and animals’ natural habitat. For instance, to build new roads people are cutting down the trees and cementing the soil, altering the environment. Because of that, a lot of species are dying out. ...
Nature-based solutions (NbSs) are recognised as relevant to spatial planning in addressing societal challenges, although their uptake is limited and fragme
pollution and heavy storms are facing habitat loss from human development, sea level rise, erosion, and even drainage (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2022). The wetlands serve as an extra layer of protection from the sea and storms, they are an important shield to us as ...
including global warming, loss of habitat, overexploitation, pollutants, and invasive species. Each of these can cause a decline in overall ecosystem health and a loss of biodiversity. Some of these threats create impacts on such a large scale that it is hard for local efforts to produce observ...
Relative to taking no action, we estimate that the combined NCS intervention scenario would force landowners to incur incidental or indirect net costs ranging from 5.7 to 6.1 billion USD across the four climate futures from 2020 to 2050 (Table 2). This indirect net economic loss is entirely dri...
Viable nature-based climate solutions (NbCS) are needed to achieve climate goals expressed in international agreements like the Paris Accord. Many NbCS pathways have strong scientific foundations and can deliver meaningful climate benefits but effective