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  • 2020-02-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Yes, 41% of UK species have declined since 1970 (en)
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  • Have 41% of wild species in the UK declined in the past 50 years? That’s the claim in an October 2019 article on the website Waking Times , headlined: 41% of UK wildlife species have declined since 1970, major report finds. The article was shared on Facebook , and flagged as false by the social network’s fact-checking system . This sent an alert for Africa Check to verify it. ‘Decreases in abundance’ The Waking Times article is a reprint of an earlier piece by Eco Watch . That article is based on the 2019 State of Nature Report by the United Kingdom’s National Biodiversity Network (NBN). The NBN is not a single organisation, but a group of more than 200 members that collaborate to produce accurate information on the condition of wildlife in the UK. The report does find that 41% of species in the UK have shown strong or moderate decreases in abundance since 1970. This, it says, is a larger share than the 26% of species that have shown an increase in the same period. – Keegan Leech (en)
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