{"id":183618,"date":"2022-05-10T20:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=183618"},"modified":"2022-05-10T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:25:17","slug":"state-of-indias-birdssoib-report-future-looms-dark-for-48-of-bird-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-indias-birdssoib-report-future-looms-dark-for-48-of-bird-species\/","title":{"rendered":"State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report: Future looms dark for 48% of bird species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report has been released.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State of the World\u2019s Birds is an <\/span><b>annual review of environmental resources.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Released by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partnership of 10 Government and non-Governmental organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h6><b>Findings related to the Global level<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approximately 48% of existing bird species worldwide are known or suspected to be undergoing population declines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is compared to trends in 39% of species remaining stable, just 6% show increasing population trends and 7% still unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More threatened bird species (86.4%) are found in tropical than in temperate latitudes, with hot spots for threatened species concentrated in the tropical Andes, southeast Brazil, eastern Himalayas, eastern Madagascar, and southeast Asian islands<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Findings related to the Indian level<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trend toward declining bird diversity is just as alarming in India, where recent annual trends have been calculated for 146 species. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of these, nearly 80% are declining in numbers and almost 50% plummeting strongly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just over 6% of the species studied show stable populations and 14% show increasing population trends.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the most threatened species were endemic species, birds of prey and those living in forests and grasslands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Reasons for Declining Bird Species<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Populations of almost half of all bird species are declining globally because of human-influenced factors such as loss or degradation of habitats, changes in land use, overexploitation and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommendations given by the report<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Conducting reliable estimates of population abundance and change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Novel and more effective solutions applied at scale for demand reduction for overharvested wild birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Monitoring green energy transitions that can impact birds if inappropriately implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Eradication of populations of invasive alien species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Shifting human societies to economically sustainable development pathways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Future looms dark for 48% of bird species<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span> <b>9th May 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report has been released. What is the State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report? State of the World\u2019s Birds is an annual review of environmental resources. Released by: Partnership of 10 Government and non-Governmental organizations. What are the key findings of the report? Findings related to the Global&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-indias-birdssoib-report-future-looms-dark-for-48-of-bird-species\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of India\u2019s Birds(SoIB) report: Future looms dark for 48% of bird species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-183618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946174},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}