Posted on 12/02/2020 6:36:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Geneva (AFP) - Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed in a new report that shifts due to the changing climate now imperil a full third of the 252 UNESCO-listed natural sites around the globe.
Overall, 94 of the sites are facing significant or critical risk from a wide range of factors -- including tourism, hunting, fire and water pollution -- marking an increase from the 62 listed in the previous study published in 2017.
The study also hinted that the Covid-19 pandemic was taking a toll on some of the world's most beautiful and precious natural places.
However, climate change is by far the biggest single threat.
It constitutes a high or very high risk factor at 83 of the sites, and has thus overtaken invasive and non-native species, which topped the threat list three years ago.
The report "reveals the damage climate change is wreaking on natural World Heritage, from shrinking glaciers to coral bleaching to increasingly frequent and severe fires and droughts," IUCN director-general Bruno Oberle said in a statement.
"This report signals the urgency with which we must tackle environmental challenges together at the planetary scale."
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Overall, 94 of the sites are facing significant or critical risk from a wide range of factors — including tourism, hunting, fire and water pollution — marking an increase from the 62 listed in the previous study published in 2017.
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Open Borders is the answer! Globalism will solve all your problems. /sarc
The US should have removed any US sites from the WHS program long ago.
United Nations, Islamonazis, Marxists, and Maoists are the biggest threat to the preservation of the history and historical sites of the world.
>>to increasingly frequent and severe fires
Notre-Dame did not self-immolate
This little pig made his house out of brick.
In the minds of the globalists the perils of “climate change” was the moral justification to steal the election, place the corrupt, frail, demented Biden as the figurehead, destroy the American nation, limit severely American liberty and implement their catostrophic globalist policies. Bad , really bad times are ahead. American academia, the MSM and the Democrat party all colluded with the globalists and must one day be held accountable in a definitive manner.
The three biggest frauds of my lifetime:
1. global warming
2. China virus hysteria
3. 2020 election
Leftists are worried they need a backup crisis with which to control the masses, now that the COVID vaccine is out.
Opinions vary.
More recycled BS. Are we all going to die tonight or what? I thought the mentally ill young loser, greta, said we had about 10 years left. These anti-science oafs never let up.
If you look at the facts you will find that Muslims have destroyed more World Heritage sites in the last 20 years than the Climate has in the last 1,000.
Project that forward and see what is the greatest threat.
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