Nagoya, Thursday - A number of vertebrate species facing extinction threat seriously. Average of 50 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish close to extinction every year.
It was raised in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, 18 to 29 October 2010. The representatives of countries gathered in..... Japan to set targets and achievements in the field of biodiversity conservation.
The report on the threat of extinction is the result of the International Union for the Study Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The study, launched in the world meeting was also published in the journal Science recently.
The study using the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN. 25 000 data-based study followed by a strict species status, especially of vertebrates, it says, 41 percent of amphibians and 13 percent of the most endangered birds. Red List of Threatened Species IUCN is a global conservation status of the information center of the world's most comprehensive.
"The backbone of biological diversity is being eroded," says ecologist, Professor Edward O Wilson of Harvard University, United States, Thursday (28/10). The condition is also only limited species regularly observed and classified status by the IUCN.
The biggest extinctions occurred in Southeast Asia, the location of logging and forest clearing for agricultural land. Forest is a habitat for many species. In addition, over-exploitation and the presence of the predator is another factor.
According to the IUCN study, the proportion of species that face extinction increases. However, intensive efforts will restore the state of conservation.
Division Chief of the Species Survival Commission (IUCN), Simon Stuart says, by understanding the threats that exist, along with serious conservation efforts, the situation can be restored.
Species that once nearly extinct then successfully recovered, among others, the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), parrot, black leg (Mustela nigripes) in America, and the Przewalski horse (Equus Ferus) in Mongolia.
Prohibition of commercial whaling is slowly increasing population humped whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) so that the species was completely out of the red list.
Another example is the global population of birds of Seychelles Magpie-robin (Copsychus sechellarum) which was originally less than 15 head in 1965 increased to 180 heads in 2006 by way of controlling the bird of prey.
In a meeting in Nagoya, envoy countries have different ambitions in conservation efforts and argue about who will fund these efforts.
The current funding to combat the loss of biodiversity, which is about 3 billion U.S. dollars in one year, it is less by developing countries. Japan offers 2 billion dollars to developing countries for three years from 2010. (INE / Reuters / ScienceDaily / BBC)