A new study is sounding the alarm over global wildlife loss, painting what the authors call “a considerably more alarming picture” of worldwide species population declines than previously thought.
Of the over 70,000 animal species analyzed by the researchers in the recent study published in Biological Reviews, 48 per cent were found to have declining populations.
“What we are experiencing right now is the beginning of what we call a mass extinction,” said Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, evolutionary and climate change biologist at Queen’s University Belfast and lead author of the study.
Many conservation estimates only measure whether a species is currently at risk of
