A guest blog about the need to tackle habitat conversion and deforestation, by Carter Roberts, president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund in the United States
but the new narrative that is emerging, which is actually equally powerful, it s notjust the moral duty but also it is a fundamental necessity, because our economy, our society, health depends on nature. but it doesn t mean that looking at nature as a service and all the goods and services it provides to us should alienate and make us ignore the rights and value of nature and the right of all these creatures to exist and share the planet with us. how badly has wildlife been impacted because of climate change, and how has that increased the challenges for you in nature conservation? climate change has been rising in the number of threats to wildlife steadily over the last few decades. right now, it s considered to be the third biggest threat. the first threat is habitat conversion, so particularly forfood production and feed for farmed animals around the world. that the number one threat.
wellbeing depends on nature. but it doesn t mean that looking at nature as a service and all the goods and services it provides to us, should alienate and make us ignore the intrinsic rights and value of nature and the right of all these creatures to exist and share the planet with us. how badly has wildlife been impacted because of climate change, and how has that increased the challenges for you in nature conservation to protect them? climate change has been rising in the number of threats to wildlife steadily over the last few decades. right now, it s considered to be the third biggest threat. the first threat is habitat conversion, so particularly forfood production and feed for farmed animals around the world. that the number one threat. but climate change is already the third, and it is affecting species in mountain levels because they are changing the climate, they cannot move up any more, it is affecting through droughts, wildlife everywhere in the world,
of nature and the right of all these creatures to exist and share the planet with us. forest fires for example, we look at forest fires and we see the smoke going up in the atmosphere when you think about the contribution to climate change, which is huge, only tropical deforestation commits to the whole of the european communion, but the billions of animals that are incinerated,. how badly has wildlife been impacted because of climate change and how has that increase the challenges of you increase the challenges of you in nature conservation? climate chance in nature conservation? climate change has in nature conservation? climate change has been in nature conservation? climate change has been rising - in nature conservation? climate change has been rising in - in nature conservation? climate change has been rising in the i change has been rising in the number of threats to wildlife steadily over the last few decades. right now, it considered to be the third biggest threat. the fir