The Aral Seaformerly the fourth largest inland lake in the world, and the centre of a thriving fishing industryhas shrunk drastically since the early 1960s due to the misuse of river flow for irrigation, and is now represented by a highly saline southern Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and northern Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. As ecosystems become healthier, their biodiversity increases. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit. The final list was formed based on the recently formalized definition of nature-based solutions by the IUCN neglecting small-scale interventions, which in some cases the authors considered to represent NbS. Where Is The World's Greatest Biodiversity? Smithsonian Scientists Find However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. Lisa Bunclark & Ivn Manuel De La Vega Hernndez, Stella Manes, Mariana M. Vale & Aliny P. F. Pires, Rajarshi DasGupta, Shizuka Hashimoto & Haripriya Gundimeda, Rachel E. Bitoun, Ewan Trgarot & Rodolphe Devillers, Jocelyn Baker, Diane Dupont & Liette Vasseur, Christian Albert, Mario Brillinger, Barbara Schrter, Environmental Management Without a diversity of pollinators, plants, and soils, our supermarkets would have a lot less produce. Plants, fungi, and animals such as worms keep soilfertileand water clean. Logging, mining and grazing are allowed on a significant share of public lands, including much of the Lincoln National Forest in southern New Mexico. According to Schlter et al. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N21/115/89/pdf/N2111589.pdf? Failure among afforestation efforts was more frequent compared to reforestation due to the fact that trees did not naturally occur in areas where they were planted. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2935, Girardin CA, Jenkins S, Seddon N, Allen M, Lewis SL, Wheeler CE, Malhi Y (2021) Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet - if we act now. Retrieved from https://knowledge.unccd.int/sites/default/files/ldn_targets/2019-04/Uzbekistan LDN TSP Country Report_0.pdf, Sweeney OF, Turnbull J, Jones M, Letnic M, Newsome TM, Sharp A (2019) An Australian perspective on rewilding. Dry areas are reported to be among the most vulnerable to land degradation caused by climate change and anthropogenic activities (UNCCD, 2017), and, in case of the global temperature rise over targeted 1,5C, they will be more susceptible to increased surface warming than humid areas. For instance, local residents in Muynak region of Karakalpakstan get hired by the State Forestry Committee to collect the seeds of saxaul plants on a seasonal basis. ILRI, Nairobi Kenya, 4, IUCN (2016) IUCN Resolutions, Recommendations and other Decisions.
