Habitat destruction is the process by which natural environments are converted, degraded or fragmented to the point where they can no longer support the species they once sustained. It is the single ...
UK wildlife has declined by an average of 19 per cent since 1970, with nearly one in six species now threatened with extinction. Farmland birds have halved, flying insect populations have crashed by ...
Deforestation is the permanent removal of forest cover for another land use. In 2024, the world's tropical primary forests lost 6.7 million hectares — nearly double the 2023 rate, and the highest ...
Invasive species in the UK cost the economy an estimated £1.7 billion to £4 billion every year and are one of the top five drivers of biodiversity loss. Around 1,900 non-native species are ...
Species extinction occurs when the last individual of a species dies, ending its evolutionary lineage permanently. Current extinction rates are estimated at 100 to 1,000 times the natural background ...
The United Kingdom is home to hundreds of endangered species, with nearly one in six of the 10,000-plus species assessed in Great Britain at risk of extinction. The State of Nature 2023 report found ...
An endangered species is a plant or animal facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. The IUCN Red List — the global authority on species conservation status — currently classifies more than ...
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a legal requirement in England for most new developments to leave nature measurably better than they found it, by delivering a minimum 10% improvement in biodiversity ...
Biodiversity conservation is the active protection, management, and restoration of species, habitats, and ecosystems, combining in-situ protection (such as protected areas), ex-situ measures (like ...
Biodiversity loss is driven by five interconnected human-caused pressures identified by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): habitat ...
