Key Biodiversity Areas Face Temperature Changes
A new study published in October 2024 reveals that up to 66 percent of key biodiversity areas (KBAs) in tropical forests are now experiencing novel mean annual temperature regimes.
- KBAs are essential sites that play a significant role in maintaining global biodiversity across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
- The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022, aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and sets a target to conserve at least 30 percent of the world's land.
- The study found that the proportion of KBAs encountering new temperature regimes varies regionally, with 72 percent in Africa, ....
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