Climate change will halve the habitats of a third of land animal species and more than half the world’s plants within 70 years unless global warming rates are reduced, researchers predict.
Reptiles and amphibians are at highest risk, the study published in Nature Climate Change reported. The largest numbers of plants and animals were likely to be lost from sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Amazonia and Australia. Major losses of plant species were also predicted for North Africa, Central Asia and southeastern Europe. An estimated 57 per cent of plants and 34 per cent of animals were likely to lose half