Half-A-Million Insect Species Face Extinction – Scientists.
A locust vendor shows a bag full of edible insects at a market in Al-Rai, northwest of Kuwait City on January 25, 2020. AFPHalf of the one million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a “warning to humanity”.
The main drivers are dwindling and degraded habitat, followed by pollutants — especially insecticides — and invasive species. Globally, crops that require insect pollination have an economic value of at least $235-577 billion annually, according to the UN biodiversity science panel, known as IPBES.A sharp drop in bird numbers across Europe and the United States, for example, has been linked to the collapse of insect populations decimated by pesticide use.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species has evaluated only some 8,400 species of insects out of one million known to exist.
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