• Half of migratory species face extinction due to human activities

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    In the case of Great Barrier Reef green turtles, rising temperatures
    have been linked to changing sex-determination, with an increasing
    number of new hatchlings born female.

    Humans are driving migratory animals-sea turtles, chimpanzees, lions,
    and penguins, among dozens of other species-towards extinction,
    according to the most comprehensive assessment of migratory species
    ever carried out.

    The State of the World's Migratory Species, a first of its kind report
    compiled by conservation scientists under the auspices of the UN
    Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre, found
    population decline, a precursor to extinction, in nearly half of the
    roughly 1,200 species listed under the Convention on Migratory Species
    (CMS), a 1979 treaty aimed at conserving species that move across
    international borders.

    The report's findings dovetail with those of another authoritative UN assessment, the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and
    Ecosystem Services, that found around 1 million of Earth's 8 million
    species are at risk of extinction due to human activity. Since the
    1970s, global biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth, has
    declined by a whopping 70 percent.
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