The significance of COP16 - the United Nations global biodiversity conference starting this week in Cali (Colombia) - is closely linked to the historic agreements of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) signed at the previous edition, two years ago.
Spending childhood holidays in the Pyrenees camping with the family must undoubtedly leave a mark on adult life. At the very least, it conditions the way we relate to nature and understand leisure. And this is the happy experience that CREAF researcher Bernat Claramunt has of his summers.
Published today in the journal Science and led by the University of Birmingham (UK) and CREAF, a new study has delved into the past and future of bird extinctions worldwide, going back to when humans first appeared, 130,000 years ago. Since then, according to the study, at least 610 species of birds have vanished, almost all of them as a result of human activities, and more than twice as many — another 1,305 — could die out in the next two centuries alone.
