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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Phoebe Weston

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

An impala in Kenya’s Nairobi national park with a railway bridge right behind it.
An impala in Nairobi national park. Researchers found the number of species at human-impacted sites was almost 20% lower than at sites unaffected by humans. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.

The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich. The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”, according to the paper, published in Nature.

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