Study using climate models
reveals that nearly 50 percent of mammals, birds, plants and other species
found nowhere else on earth will become threatened by 2080
Date: March 9, 2018
Source: Wildlife Conservation Society
Summary:
A new study predicts that the
effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of
Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global
warming.
Of the species existing within
this region, the authors anticipate that nearly 50 percent of the mammals,
birds, reptiles, and other organisms found nowhere else on earth will become
threatened according to the criteria of the Red List, an inventory of imperiled
animals and plants maintained by the International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN).
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