New Delhi, Dec. 7 -- Most countries in Asia have failed to achieve a global minimum target of protecting at least 17% of land by 2020, according to a study based on data from 40 countries.
Under the current trends, the outlook for achieving the UN Global Biodiversity Framework's 2030 target to protect at least 30 per cent of land is bleak, with Asia set to miss this by an even greater margin, the researchers said in a study published in the journal Communications Biology.
To counter the global biodiversity crisis, at the 2010 UN Convention on Biological Diversity, almost 200 countries pledged to protect at least 17 per cent of their terrestrial environments by 2020 (known as Aichi Target).
To investigate whether they achieved this, resea...