{"id":39933,"date":"2026-01-01T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39933"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:47:23","slug":"sub-saharan-africa-has-lost-almost-one-quarter-of-its-pre-industrial-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39933","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Saharan Africa has lost almost one-quarter of its pre-industrial biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"c-article-identifiers\" data-test=\"article-identifier\">\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\" data-test=\"article-category\"><span class=\"c-article-identifiers__type\">RESEARCH BRIEFINGS<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\">31 December 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    To map the biodiversity of sub-Saharan Africa, 200 specialists in African plants and animals were asked to estimate local species abundances. This approach integrates contextual, place-based knowledge into a multi-scale, comparative biodiversity assessment that can be used to support policy decisions at national, regional and global scales.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 31 December 2025 To map the biodiversity of sub-Saharan Africa, 200 specialists in African plants and animals were asked to estimate local species abundances. This approach integrates contextual, place-based knowledge into a multi-scale, comparative biodiversity assessment that can be used to support policy decisions at national, regional and global scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3130,16126,96,21570,20875,21569],"class_list":{"0":"post-39933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-biodiversity","10":"tag-lost","11":"tag-onequarter","12":"tag-preindustrial","13":"tag-subsaharan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}