Global bird populations face huge declines
Jun 30, 2022
1 minute
Simon Birch
AN UNPRECEDENTED LOSS OF BIRD populations around the world is being driven by increasingly destructive human impacts, say scientists in a stark new global review.
Half of all the world’s 11,000 bird species are undergoing population declines, report. With the best available data coming from North America and Europe, almost 3 billion individual birds have been lost in North America since 1970, with a loss of up to 620 million individual birds across Europe since 1980.
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