CONTENTS the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. [...] It’s time for the world to agree a New Deal for Nature and People, committing to stop and This highlights that a deep cultural and systemic shift is urgently reverse the loss of nature by the end of this decade and build needed, one that so far our civilisation has failed to embrace: a a carbon-neutral and nature-positive economy and society. [...] What is decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the happening to the life in our soils, or in plant and insect diversity? [...] Adding new data and taxa into the Living Planet Database, the collection of population trends that are the key components of the LPI, helps to make the index a better reflection of trends in biodiversity. [...] In El Copé in the highlands of central Panama, the chytrid fungus caused mass mortality, leading to the loss of 30 amphibian species and severely reducing the diversity of the local amphibian community 16.
- ISBN
- 9782940529995
- Pages
- 83
- Published in
- Toronto, ON, CA
