From: slider@atashram.com

More than a quarter of mammals are facing extinction, according to a
detailed and devastating report on the state of the natural world in the
UK.

It also said one in seven species were threatened with extinction, and 41%
of species studied have experienced decline since 1970.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49892209

Providing the clearest picture to date, the State of Nature report
examined data from almost 7,000 species.

It drew on expertise from more than 70 different organisations.

These included wildlife organisations and government agencies.

The report said 26% of mammal species were at risk of disappearing
altogether.

A separate report outlined the picture in Scotland, where the abundance
and distribution of species has also declined.

Scotland saw a 24% decline in average species abundance, and about one in
10 species threatened with extinction.

A quarter of moths have been lost, and nearly one in five butterflies.
Their numbers continue to plunge.

The State of Nature report shows, in grim detail, that almost one in five plants are classified as being at risk of extinction, along with 15% of
fungi and lichens, 40% of vertebrates and 12% of invertebrates.

It paints a picture of what conservationists call "the great thinning",
with 60% of "priority species" having declined since 1970.

There has been a 13% decline in the average abundance of species studied.

Our wildlife is also changing more and more quickly. Researchers found
more than half of species had either rapidly decreased or increased in
number over the last 10 years.

Daniel Hayhow from the RSPB, lead author of the report, said: "We know
more about the UK's wildlife than any other country on the planet, and
what it is telling us should make us sit up and listen. We need to respond
more urgently across the board."

Rosie Hails, nature and science director at the National Trust said: "The
UK's wildlife is in serious trouble... we are now at a crossroads when we
need to pull together with actions rather than words.

"We need a strong new set of environmental laws to hold our governments
and others to account and to set long-term and ambitious targets."

The study cited the intensification of agriculture as a key driver of
species loss. While this has, the report's authors said, led to greater
food production, it has also had a "dramatic impact on farmland
biodiversity". The study said the area of crops treated with pesticides increased by 53% between 1990 and 2010.

The report said targeted wildlife-friendly farming, supported by government-funded agri-environment schemes (AES) "may have helped slow the decline in nature but has been insufficient to halt and reverse this
trend".

The report also underlined the ongoing impact of climate change. According
to the Met Office, the UK's 10 hottest years occurred since 2002.

The report said climate change was "driving widespread changes in the abundance, distribution and ecology of the UK's wildlife, and will
continue to do so for decades or even centuries to come". The authors also
said that, in the UK, many species, including birds, butterflies, moths
and dragonflies have shifted their range north over the last four decades, moving by, on average, 20km per decade.

Warming seas also caused disruption, with marked changes in plankton and
fish distribution.

Natural England chair Tony Juniper said: "Today's report paints a stark
picture of the state of some of our most-loved species. These losses
matter as they represent an unravelling of the web on which we depend."

### - what's not clear at all is what's actually killing everything?? plus don't gimmie no bs re it's all about global warming (which is still only
so slight it couldn't possibly explain how, in only the last 50 years,
almost 60% of all species have just vanished!) when there's quite
obviously far more than that going on...

'fertility' is probably what's behind it all; it's been declining steadily since the 1950's across all species including us humans too, pesticides
(which is what nerve gas is made from) and the build-up of man-made
radioactive isotopes; not only from all that nuclear testing but also from
the several nuclear disasters/melt-downs as well, is what's more likely
doing all the damage + there's fuck-all anyone can ever do about that now!

such a decline been quite noticeable here in the uk; there were hardly any insects at all this year for example, birds too have almost completely disappeared from london, particularly the smaller varieties that
presumably live on such insects, 60% of species have disappeared globally
so far and now they's talkin' about losing another 25% of what's left??

meanwhile, no one really notices anything do they, the occasional few
headlines about it being immediately swamped by more pressing bs-news re politics, the economy, and even global shaggin' warming, anything in fact
that deflects from the real issues and the fact that everything's slowly decaying around our ears...

what a shame it has to be like this huh...

and is a perfect example of the real, underlying reality, no ever pays any attention to while they're pissing their lives up the proverbial wall
worrying about paying their mortgages & what's on tv tonite...

duh!

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