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   What are the biggest threats to Earth's biodiversity?

   • WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 has ranked the biggest threats to Earth's biodiversity. The list includes climate change, changes in land and sea use and pollution. The WWF used data from over 4,000 different species. Change in land and sea use was ranked at 50%. Image: Visual Capitalist The biggest threats to Earth’s biodiversity

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   How does human activity threaten biodiversity?

   • This article explains how human activity threatens biodiversity, and what actions are needed to address its global decline. What are threats to biodiversity? Threats to biodiversity include the burning of fossil fuels and clearing forests and other wild lands for industrialized agriculture.

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   What are the threats affecting our ecosystems?

   • Most ecosystems are facing multiple threats. Each new threat puts additional stress on already weakened ecosystems and their wildlife. Every day the byproducts of our daily lives make their way via the air and water into the natural environment and become pollutants.

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   Why is habitat loss a major threat to wildlife?

   • Habitat loss—due to destruction, fragmentation, or degradation of habitat—is the primary threat to the survival of wildlife in the United States. Climate change is quickly becoming the biggest threat to the long-term survival of America’s wildlife.

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2. www.nwf.org › Wildlife-Guide › Threats-to-WildlifeThreats to Wildlife | National Wildlife Federation

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   Learn about some of greatest threats to the survival of wildlife in the United States, including climate change, habitat loss, pollution, and disease.

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   Nov 16, 2020 · WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 has ranked the biggest threats to Earth's biodiversity. The list includes climate change, changes in land and sea use and pollution. The WWF used data from over 4,000 different species.

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   More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities.

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   Tackling threats that impact the Earth. WWF’s work addresses direct and indirect threats—and the forces that drive them—to conserve biodiversity and reduce humanity’s ecological footprint.

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   Five drivers of the nature crisis. Humans have introduced more than 37,000 invasive species, many harmful, into biomes around the world, threatening a range of plants and animals, finds a new study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

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   Global biodiversity is being lost much faster than natural extinction due to changes in land use, unsustainable use of natural resources, invasive alien species, climate change and pollution among others.

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    Apr 3, 2023 · What are threats to biodiversity? Threats to biodiversity include the burning of fossil fuels and clearing forests and other wild lands for industrialized agriculture. More direct human interventions such as poaching and hunting can also have a serious effect.