Posted on: 05 Jan 2015
What is arguably the world's greatest avian hot-spot is rapidly losing habitat and birds despite its renown.
A new study, The State of the Birds in Colombia 2014 – produced by a leading conservation group in Colombia, FundaciĆ³n ProAves – reports that decades of deteriorating ecosystem conditions have led to 122 of the country’s 1,903 bird species now facing extinction.
“Our findings are troubling because these deteriorating avian conditions are occurring in Colombia, an area viewed by many as perhaps the richest country for birds in the world,” said Alonso Quevedo, Executive Director of ProAves. “Of equal importance, these findings provide an important warning about threats to our water, air and other natural resources and suggest that the health of our environment has clearly diminished.”
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