Habitats and ecosystems thread

[Pajarita]

Large ecosystems imminent collapse.

They have now found that it's going to happen much sooner than anticipated - the Caribbean coral reefs in 15 years ONLY!!!


https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/larg ... apse-0523/

[Pajarita]

Human activity disrupts interaction between birds and plants (seed dispersal).

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 031320.php


'Intense' human pressure is 'widespread' among terrestrial animals (the study did not cover birds but it's easy to infer from this that it's terrible for them, too)

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/int ... title_1120

Where the logging stops, deforestation becomes worse through illegal clearing in Indonesia (this is one of the worst countries for animals right now...)

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/whe ... title_1120

[Pajarita]

New study finds that not all introduced species are bad for environments - some might actually be very beneficial in reducing man-made messes!

https://www.zmescience.com/science/how- ... vironment/

[Pajarita]

Covid 19 pandemic disrupts biodiversity agenda at a time when, in reality, there is no time to waste!

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/covid ... -planning/

[Pajarita]

Habitat fragmentation and Amazonian birds:

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-habitat-f ... birds.html

[Pajarita]

Lake Baringo nominated for bird sanctuary (this is one of the oldest bird-watching spots in the world) by community:

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifesty ... recognised

[Pajarita]

Bringing birds back to the farms - Achieving a balance between productive farming and providing a habitat for the birds that originally populated the region (it can be done - we can learn to share the world with animals!)

https://www.fginsight.com/blogs/blogs/f ... o-the-farm

[Pajarita]

This is more of a global concern than any specific habitat or ecosystem but an University direct measuring study has found that the US has been grossly underestimating the methane emissions from offshore oil and gas platforms:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/us-m ... ns-925243/

[Pajarita]

A long but very interesting and important article on whether preserving 30% of land and sea on Earth for wilderness is enough to stop the rapid and massive extinction of species (it's calculated that, unless something is done, 1,000,000 -ONE MILLION!- species will become extinct in decades):

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nat ... ion-crisis

[Pajarita]

US national parks to be privatized? NOT a good idea!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-na ... r-BB135cAI


Losing marine species could lead to catastrophic ecosystem collapse:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB12Ngy1


Amazon rainforest in peril and 50 endangered species that only live there:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/pet ... li=BBnb7Kz