40,900+ species are protected by CITES against overexploitation through int’l trade & are listed in 3 Appendices acc. to how threatened they are in int’l trade.
CITES Appendix I includes species that are the most endangered among all listed species…
#EndangeredSpeciesDay
Earth hosts 8 million species, but 15,000 are at risk of extinction due to human activity. Top 5 threats:
Habitat loss 🌳
Invasive species 🦠
Overexploitation 🎣
Pollution 🏭
Climate change 🌡️
Let's take action to protect our planet's #biodiversity ! 🌍
Seals play a crucial role in maintaining the health and balance of the ocean ecosystem, preventing overfishing and promoting #biodiversity . As we continue to witness the devastating effects of pollution, climate change, and overexploitation on our oceans,
In ‘business as usual’ scenarios, biodiversity, and the
services it provides will continue to decline,
scenarios, until 2050 and beyond, due to the increasing impacts of land and sea use change, overexploitation, climate change, pollution-UN Biodiversity
#cpsavesoil
1/n #WaterWars #BengaluruWaterCrisis
Residents of Ambedkar Nagar Whitefield stop borewell drilling by PG Builder, next to a Public Borewell!
4 of the 5 public borewells in the area dried up due to illegal overexploitation by PG builders.
@nsboseraju BWSSB