地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁_BEC初级作文

地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁

联合国生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台（IPBES）发布的这份报告由来自50个国家的145名专家撰写。报告称，全球物种灭绝的“平均速度已经数十甚至数百倍于千万年前”。

Shrinking habitat, exploitation of natural resources, climate change and pollution are the main drivers of species loss and are threatening more than 40% of amphibians, 33% of coral reefs and over a third of all marine mammals with extinction, the IPBES report said.

报告称，日渐缩小的栖息地、自然资源过度开采、气候变化和污染是地球物种损失的主因，这些因素正在威胁全世界40%以上的两栖类动物、33%的珊瑚礁和1/3以上的海洋哺乳动物，它们都面临灭绝风险。

amphibian [æm'fɪbɪən]：n. [脊椎]两栖动物

"The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," said Sir Robert Watson, IPBES chair, adding that "transformative change" is needed to save the planet.

“所有物种赖以生存的生态系统正以史无前例的速度恶化”，IPBES主席罗伯特·沃森先生表示。他补充说，为了保护地球，人类需要进行“转型变革”。

The report comes six months after the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that the world has less than 12 years to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming.