Half of world's bird species in decline, moving 'ever faster' to extinction

PARIS - Almost half of all bird species are in decline globally and one in eight are threatened with extinction, according to a major new report warning that human actions are driving more species to the brink and nature is"in trouble".

"One in eight bird species is threatened with extinction, and the status of the world's birds continues to deteriorate: species are moving ever faster towards extinction," said the report released this week by BirdLife International. BirdLife International, which has decades of survey data, said there are now 2.9 billion fewer individual birds in North America than there were in 1970, an estimated drop of 29 per cent.In both cases, the losses are most acute among long-distance migrants and farmland birds.

We’ve stop trying to save biodiversity and have turned on fighting each other.. those that cared are at best.. digitizing wildlife so that future humans can look an at mp4 on their iPads. On the path to Cuban missile crisis 2.0. Just different locations

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