Experts say that the loss of Species and the collapse of the Eco-system causes harm to the mankind, as well as climate change. But someone is listening to actually?
On the day that the scientists have previously warned that one Million species are threatened with extinction, and is nothing short of “transformative” measures, the destruction of our Ecosystem and previous life style, stay, lay down British journalists really into stuff. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, had just brought a Baby to the world.
In the battle for the public attention the Royal Baby was a king. The Baby pushed it to the report of the world biodiversity tätsrats IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) the next day, with two exceptions, of all the title pages of British Newspapers. Worldwide, Google was asked-are Looking for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on the day of the publication of the report, in comparison to biodiversity, 14 and 31 Times stronger.
“Where are the breaking news?”, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg asked the next evening in a Tweet and pointed to the lack of reporting. “The additional news broadcasts? The Title Pages? Where are meetings of the Emergency? The Crisis Summit? What could be more important?”
The IPBES report, the most comprehensive study about the life on the earth, shows the large threat due to the loss of biological diversity: A Million species are threatened with extinction; of the soil, the forests, oceans and rivers, on which we depend, have been devastated by the people; and the collapse of the climate can only be due to a better protection of the environment is prevented. The on 6. May published summary for policy makers has been hailed as an important milestone.
However, in the face of an accelerating crisis of species extinction desperate the environmentalists to the fact that the media ignore the most important alarm bells, or simply ignore it.
Scientists warn of “unprecedented” man-made destruction
Still, the people behind the report cautiously optimistic.
“I really believe that we have triggered for the first Time, a global consciousness, and I say this not lightly,” said Anne Larigauderie, IPBES Executive Secretary. You have recently seen the Graffiti, the die in front of a “sixth mass,” in the suburb of Paris, warned in which she lives. Scientists say that there have already been five previous mass extinctions on earth.
“We have been talking about for several decades [species diversity] and I feel for the first Time that something is moving.”
According to IPBES, more than 20,000 articles have been written in a total of 45 languages on the report. It was difficult to determine the exact presence on television screens and radio waves, said Patrick, Toni who works in the communications team of IPBES. The report, however, also led national news bulletins, including a BBC news broadcast.
Local and national administrations, cited the report and called on the climate emergency. IPBES representatives met earlier this month with the Environmental Ministers of the G7 member States, a Charter of the biological diversity to sign. The Minister should, on 22. In may, the international day of United Nations biological diversity, in front of the US Congress to testify. Myanmar agreed to, according to local media, the 133 reports shortly after the publication of the report for. To become a member of IPBES.
“I would not say that the Echo was perfect or in any way ideal,” said Toni shot. “But it was a big progress in raising awareness of biodiversity.”
Orangutans belong to the endangered species
People to take care of
When it comes to nature, is the battle for attention is a tough battle.
A dynamic, simple and urgent language helped to resonate with people, said Joyce Msuya, Deputy Director of the UN environment programme. As a result, managed to place the report in a competitive news cycle. “I was [also] one of those people who watched all two minutes in the Smartphone after news of the Royal Baby,” she added, “I felt the excitement.”
But Attempts to bring the conservation issue into the public consciousness, so, one must be advised, however, to a Halt.
“The people care about the loss of biological diversity, but faced with obstacles, in order to really deal,” said Kathryn Williams, an Environmental psychologist at the University of Melbourne. The not that we know of plants, animals and places we love, in the words “biodiversity” and “species” again. The extent of extinction and the loss can feel so overwhelming that we have distanced ourselves emotionally; and at the individual level, we simply would not know what we can do about it.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Sugar Sweet Crystals
What is seen here, comes to all of us, probably as the first in the sense, when we think of bees: honey. Here were made at 100-fold magnification, and by using polarized light, the sugar crystals are visible. For a jar of honey bees must visit about 450,000 to three million flowers.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Empty
What is not many, however, really aware of The pure, sticky honey in the glass is just a tiny part of the production range of the bees. This symbolic and effective action of a super market should make the recently significantly. 60 percent of the articles have been sorted out. All of the products that would not exist without the hard-working insects. There were empty shelves remained.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Bees Know-how
And especially bee are not the same bee. A wild bee, for example, no honey, but it is a particularly efficient Bestäuberin – and, in particular, to you it is, if the bees die, the speech is. Also, bumblebees are wild bees species. Honey bees have a concern, however, is less fundamental, since they are farm animals and bee hives of people are held.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?(K)an Apple per day
And of course there are other pollinators besides bees, butterflies, flies, or birds for example. But about a third of our fruit and vegetables are from the pollination by bees-dependent. This includes Apples, pears include, for example, strawberries, cucumber. And that is what we would do without all of the hate, is it?
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Small Goods Customer
But back in the supermarket. It is obvious, that without bees, not only the fruit and vegetable shelves remain empty. In addition, all of the foods that contain the additive E 901 missing, what corresponds to the European approval number of bees wax. Of such products, there is a whole lot.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Multi-functional
Currently, the bees wax from the food industry is indispensable. It comes, for example – as here – as a Coating and release agent of rubber fruit so that the gummy bears don’t all stick to each other – lucky! The same is true for a whole range of other Sweet and baked goods.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Pretty and durable
And why is our chocolate often looks so beautiful? Not because, as here, the insects are draped. But here, too, is thanks to the industrious bees, or E 901, the chocolate pretty Shine. Also fruits and vegetables is often declared as “waxed” so that it loses less moisture and longer shelf-life and appetizing(he) looks like.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?No Cocoa
Speaking of chocolate: Without bees, there will be the also in Abundance, because even our bees assist in the pollination of all the work. In an emergency, only the extremely tedious and a lot of ineffizientere pollination by Hand would be. The same goes for nuts.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Caffeine kick for all
Not only people, but also bees on caffeine, which has shown an Experiment with caffeine-free and caffeine-containing sugar-water. The industrious insects themselves were in search of the drying up of the source is still constantly a caffeine kick. At the same time the bees provide through pollination, but also for our (hopefully) never-ending supply of coffee beans.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Lost Diversity
How many words thanks to the efforts of the bees in our shopping, can still be difficult to demonstrate – as the above articles, for example, a variety of spices, marinades, dairy products or even toilet paper with chamomile scent. What we are perhaps less dependent than fruit and vegetables….
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Bees: What are we left with without them?Our bees!
Nevertheless, it is clear how much we benefit from the hard work of the animals and that we would have to change without the active support of the insects quite beautiful. Not only in the world bienentag we should therefore pay tribute.
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Bees: What are we left with without them?How to help?
For the protection of bees is not only a restrained use of pesticides by agriculture. Also, you can do something to protect the animals: insect hotels serve bees as a nesting and wintering ability, flowers in the balcony box, and fruit trees are on the Lawn in a safe and secure source of food.
More than the climate scientists and journalists have wrestled with how to you should the scope of nature. To have a better connection to the readers, has updated the newspaper British newspaper The Guardian last week, their directives to the English word “wildlife” to the concept of “biodiversity” is preferable. On damage to biological diversity, is reported in the media up to eight times less than about climate change, found canadian researchers in the past year.
The Reason For This? The unprecedented degradation of the natural, which has accelerated inconspicuous, is considered in isolation is less dramatic than extreme weather events such as flash floods and forest fires caused by global warming. Also, the influence on the people is not to capture. An obscure earthworm can be a part of an Ecosystem that keeps the soil fertile and helps to bring food to our plates. But his death occurs because the heart is rare like a polar bear on melting ice.
This has led to discussions on biodiversity focus on charismatic mammals such as Orang-Utans and elephants, at the expense of fungi and bacteria, their Benefit is less visible.
The canadian researchers also observed a 10 – to 15-year delay between the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an increase in media attention to climate change. The IPBES, which has spent three years and $ 2.4 million for the creation of his global assessment of biological diversity, was founded in 2012.
“If you look at the history, I think that this is the first Time ever that a biodiversity or nature in this report was the subject of major headlines around the world,” said Msuya. “We could not think of a better time to wish to talk about biological diversity.”
Indigenous people suffer most from the loss of the species
Whose Problem?
The increasing awareness of the biological diversity could be attributed, in part, on the Lessons learned from communication about climate change. The emphasis on the dependence of the humanity of nature in terms of food, water, energy, and medicine, in the press briefing of the report and the impact of the loss of biodiversity to the people aroused the interest of journalists. The research field of ecosystem services, on which the report was based, gives the whole a price tag.
This frame was made by environmentalists in question, which is to say, he ignore the report highlighted the intrinsic value of nature.
Kieran Suckling, Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a Tweet: “There is no reason, no authentic emotional Motivation, a “larger” Problem [as the Holocaust] to turn to. Most people can have to the tragedy of its reputation, what do we do with ourselves and other people of the earth, without immediately a Problem is more important to explain.”
The shock of their Figures in the report dominated the headlines, said IPBES, where only a small part of the article to Use the intangible of biodiversity is treated. In order for people to be able to deal with the biodiversity, it is necessary to show how they influenced you, Williams said, the environmental psychologist. “One of the great things about the report is that it highlights the different ways in which we appreciate the nature of value in General. Not only in tangible ways such as food and clean air, but also the way we conduct ourselves on a more emotional level.”
The sluggish response of governments has put pressure on scientists and journalists to find new ways to communicate the urgency of the loss of biodiversity.
On the Morning after the publication of the global assessment by IPBES and the birth of Meghan Markle in the daily newspaper (taz) who had expected a shift in the public priorities are already, the history of biological diversity, alongside a picture of the British Royal family, the Windsors, has opened. It was provided with a caption: “Windsor’s saved from extinction!”
