Whether it’s forests being felled for monoculture crops or development encroaching on habitats, a new study highlights how human activity is causing freshwater species to be wiped out at a faster rate.
The study found 43 per cent of mammals dependent on the rivers, streams and lakes that make up freshwater systems are threatened and three in four of them globally face threats from the expansion of human activity.
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