JOHANNESBURG - Climate change is playing an increasingly important role in the decline of biodiversity with animal populations plummeting by nearly 70% in the last 50 years.
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It has altered marine and freshwater ecosystems around the world, causing the loss of local species and driving mass mortality of plants and animals, resulting in extinctions.
The main driver of biodiversity loss remains humans’ use of land, primarily for food production.
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