This week, the biodiversity conference takes place in Montreal, after it was postponed by Covid-19 in the Chinese city of Kunming last May. That postponement was worrying, says Professor of Land Use and Biodiversity Merel Soons , because time is running out for nature conservation. The reason our biodiversity is declining so much is well known. The biggest threat to wild plants and animals is the loss of their habitats. Where there is no longer a place to shelter, eat, raise young or simply grow, plants and animals cannot survive. Secondly, comes 'overutilisation': the unsustainable hunting, fishing, gathering and harvesting of wildlife. In shared third and fourth place come pollution and climate change.
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