Since the 1970s, the US has . We now know that those losses aren’t just growing — they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture and expanding communities are changing the landscape. Bird  have been . But human pressures on nature are not just continuing; they are increasing at an accelerating rate. Indicators of…
India has submitted its 7th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), presenting a detailed national assessment of progress towards global biodiversity goals set for 2030. The report is the country’s official submission under the CBD, an international environmental treaty through which nations commit to conserving biological diversity and using natural resources sustainably….
Halting the loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest conservation challenges of the 21st century. Despite decades of effort, the pace of decline shows little sign of slowing. Since the 1990s, ecologists have warned of an impending mass extinction. It would be the Earth’s sixth—but unlike any that has come before. Today’s crisis is…
Land-use change and elevation are jointly influencing the functional properties of spiders in the north-western Indian Himalayas, affecting community resilience and the ecological roles of these arthropods, researchers have found. The findings, published in the journal by scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India, describe what the authors say is the first assessment of functional…