Delegates from 130 nations meeting in Paris from 29 April will vet the executive summary line-by-line.
PARIS - Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends.
"The way we produce our food and energy is undermining the regulating services that we get from nature," he said, adding that only "transformative change" can stem the damage. "Half-a-million to a million species are projected to be threatened with extinction, many within decades." Scientists estimate that Earth is today home to some eight million distinct species, a majority of them insects.
The direct causes of species loss, in order of importance, are shrinking habitat and land-use change, hunting for food or illicit trade in body parts, climate change, pollution, and alien species such as rats, mosquitoes and snakes that hitch rides on ships or planes, the report finds.
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