The UK is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries – and may not have enough biodiversity to prevent an ecological meltdown, according to new data.
The UK has an average of only 53% of its biodiversity left, well below the global average of 75%. That’s according to analysis by the Natural History Museum released on Sunday 10 October.
Biodiversity dwindling fast
Both figures are lower than the 90% average which experts consider the “safe limit” to prevent the world from tipping into an “ecological recession”. This would mean a future in which ecosystems don’t have enough biodiversity to function well. Moreover, it would lead to crop failures and infestations that could cause shortages in food, energy and materials. The Canary.
Blogger: this Blog has consistently talked about the wreckage caused to nature by rampant predators: corvidae, grey squirrels and wood pigeons.
As songbirds plummet into decline - what I refer to as 'rubbish species' have taken over. Add urban foxes to the mix, now uncontrolled country foxes and brown rats and so many 'ordinary species' have dwindled: ground-nesting birds, tree nesting birds and smaller rodents have all suffered.
Against this backcloth, certain bodies are attempting to lend support to an excess of raptors such as sparrow-hawks.
Many are even reintroducing creatures which have been non-existent on these shores for up to half a millennium - goshawks and red kites to name but two.
Talk about lunatics taking over asylums!
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