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Strangely, biodiversity indicators used to describe the state of the environment and measure progress toward the Aichi targets consider only native species.

Here, I argue that biodiversity and sustainability indices should include all species. This is not only consistent with definitions of biodiversity but also will promote the idea that long-term, sustainable, human well-being is intricately tied to benefits derived from nature.

The Living Planet Report 2018 is the twelfth edition of the report and provides the scientific evidence to what nature has been telling us repeatedly: unsustainable human activity is pushing the planet’s natural systems that support life on Earth to the edge.

Organisms may be directly affected by anthropogenic sound in many ways, including interference with their ability to detect mates, predators, or food...Click on the link below to access the full paper. 

Protected Areas are important because of the following reasons: “They safeguard many of the world’s outstanding areas of biodiversity, natural beauty and cultural significance. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

 

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity"s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Researchers talk of "biological annihilation" as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades.Click on the link below to read the full story.

This new WWF report finds that poaching occurs in almost 30% of World Heritage Sites where one third of the world's remaining wild tigers and 40% of all African animals live.