The declining state of the natural world

 

Two Daily Mail articles caught my eye;  both of them show how the expanding dominance of humanity is encroaching on and endangering our natural world.  

This is not a happy blog post, folks.

Coral reef cover has been decimated by HALF since the 1950s thanks to climate change, study warns
- Researchers led from the University of British Columbia assessed reef systems
- They looked at the extent of reefs and their ability to provide services like food
- Fish biodiversity and biomass has fallen by some 60 per cent since the 1950s
- The degradation of reefs will threaten the well-being of coastal communities

Koalas are going extinct with as few as 30,000 left in the Australian wild when the country was once home to EIGHT MILLION
- New data shows wild koala numbers have plunged by 30 per cent in three years
- The Australian Koala Foundation monitors the marsupials' populations
- Land clearing, bushfires, dogs and disease are among threats to koalas
- Foundation wants a 'Koala Protection Act' law to protect the native marsupial

It doesn't help that where they live was hit with raging bushfires enhanced by the effects of climate change.