Soon a sixth extinction? "We are in an emergency", insists the president of the LPO

Océane Théard edited by Mélanie Faure 2:23 p.m., September 4, 2021

Will society face a sixth mass extinction?

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has published its long-awaited Red List of Threatened Species, created in 1964. Experts from this organization list tens of thousands of animals and plants.

It ranges from dragonfly to ferns to bison.

These species are then classified into nine categories, from those that do not cause concern, to the permanently extinct species.

And according to these experts, nearly 30 percent of the 135,000 species studied are now threatened.

Last year, more than 13,000 species were listed as endangered, more than 7,000 as critically endangered.

This is a worrying, even alarming finding.

Place biodiversity at the rank of climate

Asked at the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday, the president of the League for the protection of birds (LPO) Allain Bougrain Dubourg reacted to Emmanuel Macron's speech in Marseille. Traveling in the Marseille city, the head of state opened the World Congress for Nature (IUCN) on Friday. "The President wisely insisted that it was now necessary to put biodiversity on the same level as the climate", declared Allain Bougrain Dubourg. "This is not trivial. This means that politically, when we take measures, we must integrate the consequences on biodiversity. It also means that we must finance in the same way as we finance the climate issue. . (...) We are in a hurry. "

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But Allain Bougrain Dubourg wants to be optimistic: "In the 70s, there were less than 10 pairs of white storks. Today, there are nearly 3,000. There were no more griffon vultures in the Cévennes and today 'hui, it's a tourist spot to see them fly. "

The subject should be brought up again: the World Conservation Congress closes on September 11.