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Its objectives, powers and authority are set out in the establishing Act, the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority Act 2014. [16] The act is expressed to bind the State of PNG (s.3). The PNG government's efforts to conserve biodiversity are supported by international environmental conservation Non-governmental organizations (NGOs ...
A study of biodiversity identified a further 398 areas as candidates for conservation. [3] This would increase the total protected areas to 16.8% of the total country area. Included in the PNG protected area list, but not formally recognized by International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) is the terrestrial ...
A 2019 UN report assessing global biodiversity extrapolated IUCN data to all species and estimated that 1 million species worldwide could face extinction. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Conservation of a select species are often prioritized on several factors which include significant economic and ecological value, as well as desirability or attractiveness. [ 40 ]
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
The flagship species concept appears to have become popular around the mid 1980s [7] within the debate on how to prioritise species for conservation. The first widely available references to use the flagship concept applied it to both neotropical primates [8] and African elephants and rhinos, [9] in the mammal-centric approach that still dominates how the concept is used.
Biodiversity loss happens when plant or animal species disappear completely from Earth or when there is a decrease or disappearance of species in a specific area. Biodiversity loss means that there is a reduction in biological diversity in a given area. The decrease can be temporary or permanent.
Of that number, 39% accounts for the terrestrial wildlife gone, 39% for the marine wildlife gone and 76% for the freshwater wildlife gone. Biodiversity took the biggest hit in Latin America, plummeting 83 percent. High-income countries showed a 10% increase in biodiversity, which was canceled out by a loss in low-income countries.
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