Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss

"This text addresses the findings of the World Wide Fund's Root Causes Project, a multiyear study of 10 biospheres in 10 countries with the purposes of understanding and changing the dynamics and factors that drive the loss of biological diversity. Cases studied are Brazil's Cerrado region, Cameroon's bushmeat and wildlife trading environment, China's southwestern forests, the Danube River Basin, India's Chilika Lake, Mexico's Calakmul region, the mangroves of Pakistan, the Philippines' Cebu, Negros, and Palawan, the Rufiji, Ruvu and Wami mangroves in Tanzania, and Vietnam's northern and central highlands."
"The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting, pollution and habitat change have been well studied, but the socioeconomic factors driving people to degrade their environment are less well understood. This book examines the underlying causes. It provides analyses of a range of case studies from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Danube River Basin, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania and Viet."@en