Nature is critical to our survival: it provides us with
our oxygen, regulates our weather
patterns, and produces our food, feed, and fiber.
But human activity has altered almost
75 percent of the earth’s surface, squeezing
wildlife and nature into an ever-smaller corner of the planet. The
health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever,
affecting our economies, livelihoods, food security, health, and quality of
life worldwide. Deforestation and desertification - caused by human
activities and climate change - pose major
challenges to sustainable
development and have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people.
- Forests are home to around 1.6 billion people and over
80% of all land species of animals, plants, and insects.
- As for biodiversity, of the 8,300 animal breeds, 8% are
extinct, and 22% are at risk of
extinction.
Goal 15.5: Take urgent
action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, and stop the
loss of biodiversity.
de- adds the meaning "opposite", "remove", or "reduce" to a noun or verb: deforestation, degrade, decode<->encode.
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