{"id":35411,"date":"2024-02-26T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/?p=35411"},"modified":"2024-02-22T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:41:02","slug":"nearly-half-of-the-worlds-migratory-species-are-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/climate-change\/nearly-half-of-the-worlds-migratory-species-are-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of the world\u2019s migratory species are in decline, UN report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article written by Christina Larson
\n<\/em>Originally published by wbtv.com<\/a> (Mon, Feb 12, 2024)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change.<\/h3>\n
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About 44% of migratory species worldwide are declining in population,\u00a0the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by the U.N. are threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are species that move around the globe. They move to feed and breed and also need stopover sites along the way,\u201d said Kelly Malsch, lead author of the report released at a\u00a0U.N. wildlife conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

Habitat loss or other threats at any point in their journey can lead to dwindling populations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMigration is essential for some species. If you cut the migration, you\u2019re going to kill the species,\u201d said Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the report.<\/p>\n

The report relied on existing data, including information from the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s\u00a0Red List, which tracks whether a species is endangered.<\/p>\n

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Participants of the U.N. meeting plan to evaluate proposals for conservation measures and also whether to formally list several new species of concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne country alone cannot save any of these species,\u201d said Susan Lieberman, vice president for international policy at the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society.<\/p>\n

At the meeting, eight governments from South America are expected to jointly propose adding two species of declining Amazon catfish to the U.N. treaty\u2019s list of migratory species of concern, she said.<\/p>\n

The Amazon River basin is world\u2019s largest freshwater system. \u201cIf the Amazon is intact, the catfish will thrive \u2014 it\u2019s about protecting the habitat,\u201d Lieberman said.<\/p>\n

In 2022, governments\u00a0pledged to protect 30% of the planet\u2019s land and water resources for conservation at the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article written by Christina Larson Originally published by wbtv.com (Mon, Feb 12, 2024) Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change. About 44% of migratory species worldwide are declining in population,\u00a0the report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":35413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35415,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411\/revisions\/35415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalsurvival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}