CALI ( COLOMBIA ): More than one-third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world’s leading scientific authority on the status of species. Given the amount of living that plants can maintain, the findings, which were released on Monday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red Checklist, are particularly disturbing. Many kinds of different plants, animals and fungi rely on jungle ecosystems. Branches are also essential to governing waters, nutrients and planet-warming carbon.
” Trees are necessary to support life on Earth through their important role in communities, and millions of people depend on them for their lives and livelihoods”, Grethel Aguilar, director-general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in a speech. Because it includes more than 80 % of the known tree species, the trees analysis is regarded as complete. In all, 38 % were found to be at risk of extinction. More than 1, 000 researchers from around the globe contributed.
Island diversity is especially vulnerable, in part because those species frequently have remote-located populations, and area trees are the ones who are most likely to be endangered. In Madagascar, for instance, many species of rosewoods and ebonies are threatened. In Borneo, 99 types in the family of plants called Dipterocarpaceae are imperiled. In Cuba, fewer than 75 adult citizens of the red-flowered Harpalyce kind, known in Spanish as knight’s body, remain.
Around the world, the biggest threats to plants are crops and checking, followed by urbanisation, said Emily Beech, mind of conservation priority at Botanic Gardens Conservation International, a nonprofit group that led the research then included in the Red List.
For moderate parts, pests and diseases are key threats to plants. Climate change is an emerging risk, Beech said, and it’s unclear how warming may impact the majority of trees types.
The team made the findings public in Cali, Colombia, where government officials and other international participants have gathered for the annual UN biodiversity meeting. Negotiations are currently in their next month suffocated by tensions over how countries with lower economic levels but higher biodiversity levels will pay to protect and restore nature rather than extract resources.
The universe has worked hard to stop deforestation, which has a negative impact on the environment and wildlife.
In 2021, more than 140 countries, including Brazil, China, Russia and the United States, vowed to stop deforestation by 2030. But many countries signed on that the contract covers some 90 % of the country’s trees.
