Study Warns Climate Change and Deforestation will Lead to Declines in Global Bird Diversity

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White-crested hornbill also confined to African rainforests may see more than half of its geographic range lost by 2100. Credit: Walter Jetz UC San Diego
White-crested hornbill, also confined to African rainforests, may see more than half of its geographic range lost by 2100. Credit: Walter Jetz, UC San Diego

Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats will lead to significant declines and extinctions in the world’s 8,750 terrestria bird species over the next century, according to a study conducted by biologists at the University of California, San Diego and Princeton University.


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