THE CASE FOR NATURE.

THE BIG STORY THE BIG STORY BIODIVERSITY At the start of 2020 a strange, beautiful creature, whose kind had been around for at least 200 million years, was declared gone forever. The estimated number of all species facing extinction is a sobering one million.[3] According to scientists, the extinction threat is equally as urgent as climate change and in one aspect worse - extinction is irreversible; once a species is gone, it's gone for good. It found the indigenous lands to be slightly more species rich than the protected areas and, in Brazil and Canada, they even supported more threatened species than protected areas.[10] This despite indigenous people foraging and hunting on these lands. [Extracted from the article]
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