There’s a new and chilling study about the failure of management techniques to protect the planet's needed biodiversity. Some of the reporting on the study is also chilling.
(If interested, the article from the Marine Ecology Progress Series is
here. After the download, scroll to page 251.)
The findings suggest that in the marine world, the use of “protected areas” do not adequately protect the variety and health of species—certainly not to the extent necessary.
I’ve covered the decline in biodiversity elsewhere and this new news shows that the problem is not going away.
But there’s a double threat to the story. Besides understanding and mitigating the loss of global biodiversity, we must also understand its root causes. Scientists and commentators often claim two related ones: overconsumption and overpopulation. The adjective they often use is
anthropogenic, which means you and me. People are the problem, some say, because we consume too much and there’s just too many of us.
In
fishnewseu.com, Dr. Peter F. Sale, one of the study's authors, says this:
"Our study shows that the international...