Human development and biodiversity conservation can go hand in hand, study finds A new scientific study has assessed the impact of future human development scenarios on the conservation of species, using data from the IUCN Red List. The study, published in the journal Conservation Letters and involving 10 institutions including BirdLife International, developed new approaches for assessing the potential impacts of different policy decisions. The authors used the Red List Index – an indicator of biodiversity trends first developed by BirdLife using data for birds, and showed how it can be projected into the future, using data on two groups of mammals: carnivores and ungulates. Alongside results for a similar approach using the Living Planet Index, they found that a global business-as-usual scenario of socio-economic and environmental policy would bring increased deforestation and carbon emissions causing up to 1 in 4 species of carnivore and ungulates to be at higher risk of extinction by 2050. No species are expected to improve their current prognosis under this scenario. birdlife.org/worldwide/news/human-development-and-biodiversity-conservation-can-go-hand-hand-study-finds?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=924363&utm_campaign=0
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:36:50 +0000
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