Posted by: Sandy Steinman | June 16, 2020

Nature crisis: New global extinction target proposed

The BBC  reports

The world needs a single goal for fighting the loss of nature, much like the 1.5C target for climate change, according to conservation experts.

Extinctions of plants and animals should be kept well below 20 per year, they propose.

Last year, a UN report found that around one million species are now threatened with extinction.

Read more at Nature crisis: New global extinction target proposed – BBC News


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