Despite the year 2010 being the International Year of Biodiversity, it's also the year the world missed a crucial goal to slow the loss of biodiversity.
It all started in 2002, when world leaders attending the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Now, eight years on, a team of scientists has concluded that biodiversity is still declining at an alarming rate.
To read the report on the world's current biodiversity status, see the Science Express article, Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines.
Photo © Andy aand Gill Swash / worldwildlifeimages.com. The photo shows the critically endangered Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanni. This species of bird is declining due to habitat destruction and reprsents one of the many species under threat due to the biodiversity crisis.
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