Ben Barnett
Government action is desperately
needed if dramatic declines of native wildlife species are to be reversed and
some even saved from extinction, a group of some of the country’s leading
conservationists has warned.
The new State of Nature report
published today claims that more than half of UK species have suffered declines
in recent years and more than one in ten species are under threat of
extinction.
Conservationists in Yorkshire
have highlighted how species that rely on the region’s uplands and coastal
areas for vital habitats are at particular risk.
Nationally, huge losses of bird
species have been recorded over the past few decades, including seabirds such
as puffins and kittiwakes and other birds found in-land such as curlews,
lapwings and hen harriers that should be thriving in Yorkshire.
Nationally, 33 per cent fewer
curlews and 26 per cent fewer lapwings were recorded between 1995 and 2014.
In Yorkshire, there have been no
reports of breeding hen harriers for around a decade, according to the RSPB.
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