Day: 30th April 2019

Man depends on nature but methodically destroys it: up to a million animal and plant species could be threatened with extinction, many of them “in the coming decades”, according to a UN draft report on biodiversity, published by AFP. 

Drinking water, forests that absorb CO2, pollinating insects needed for crops, fish … The Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) will meet from April 29 to May 4 in Paris to adopt the first global assessment of ecosystems for nearly 15 years. The state of biodiversity should be as worrying as climate change predictions. Of the estimated 8 million species (including 5.5 million insect species) on the planet, “half a million to one million species should be threatened with extinction, many of them in the coming decades “, continues the text. 

These projections correspond to the warnings of many scientists who believe that the Earth is at the beginning of the 6th “mass extinction”, the first attributed to humans who have already removed at least 680 species of vertebrates for 500 years.

The figures of Statistics Mauritius indicate that 900,000 Mauritians have a mobile phone and more than one million people have access to the internet. 

Digital devices: phones, tablets and computers have become indispensable in the daily lives of Mauritians. However, the misuse of these facilities has consequences. Psychologists believe there is no point in giving a mobile phone to a child under the age of 10.