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Demanding more funds to stem the rapid decline in biodiversity, experts showed members of the Senate on Wednesday how conservation investments dovetail with other goals like fighting climate change and Covid-19.
Leah Gerber founded the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University where she is a professor. (Image via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) With invasive species on the rise, habitats losing ground and temperatures climbing, global biodiversity is declining faster now than any other time in human history.
An expert panel laid out the battle lines Wednesday, telling the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that some 25% of the world’s species are threatened with extinction today.