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More Than a quarter of mammals are threatened with Extinction , according to a detailed and damning report on The State of the Natural World in the UK.

He also said in the seven species were threatened with Extinction , and 41% of the studied species decline have experienced since 1970.

Provides the clearest picture to date, The State of nature, examines The Report data from almost 7,000 species.

He moved on know-how from More Than 70 different organizations.

These include wildlife organizations, and government agencies.

The Report said 26% of mammal species At Risk of disappearing.

A separate report described the picture in Scotland, where the abundance and distribution of species has also declined.

Scotland saw a 24% decline in the average numbers of many species, and about One in 10 species are threatened with Extinction .

More Than 80% of Frosted Green moths were lost

A quarter of the moths lost, and almost One in five butterflies. To overthrow their number continues to.

The State Of nature report shows, in grim detail, that almost a fifth of the plants classified as endangered, together with 15% of the fungi and lichens, 40% of vertebrate animals and 12% of the invertebrates.

It paints a picture of what to call the environmentalists "the great "dilution", which passed with 60% of the "priority species" back, since 1970.

It was studied a 13% decline in the average abundance of species.

Our animal world is changing More and More quickly. The researchers found More Than half of the species either rapidly decreased or increased in number in The Last 10 years.

Daniel Hayhow from the RSPB, lead author of The Report , said: "We know More about the UK wildlife than any other country on The Planet , and what it wants to say to us should make us sit up and listen. We need to respond urgently on the board. "

wild flowers have been lost at a rate of up to nearly One species per year per County, since the 1950s, The Report says

Rosie Hails , nature, and science director at The National Trust, said: "The British animal and plant world is in serious Trouble . we are now at a crossroads, when we must pull together, with actions rather than with words.

"We need a new, strong group of environmental-to comply with laws, to take account of our governments and others, and to set long-term and ambitious goals. "

The study cites the intensification of agriculture as a major driver of species loss. While this has, the authors of The Report said, led to increased food production, it also has a "has a dramatic effect on farmland biodiversity". The study said, the area of crops treated with pesticides increased by 53% between 1990 and 2010.

The Report said the targeted wildlife-friendly farming supported by the government-funded agri-environment schemes (AES) "may have helped slow down The Decline of the species but was not areas sufficient to stop and reverse this trend".

The UK population of skylarks is halved in the 1990s. Farmland Birds declined More Than in any other habitat

The Report also underscored the ongoing effects of Climate Change . According to the Met Office , the UK's 10 hottest years have been since 2002.

The Report said that Climate Change is "to drive widespread changes in the abundance, distribution and ecology of British animal and plant world, and will continue to do so for decades or even centuries, to come". The authors added that in the UK, many animal species, including Birds , butterflies, moths and dragonflies have shifted their range North in The Last four decades, in motion, in an average of 20 km per decade.

the warming of the seas also caused disturbances, with pronounced changes in plankton and fish distribution.

Natural England , chair, Tony Juniper , said: "today's report paints a stark picture of The State of some of our beloved species. These losses matter, as they represent a smashing of The Web on which we depend. "

A positive piece of data is that a quarter of the UK species studied have increased, including the bittern, and the large blue butterfly.

public support for conservation continues to grow. The amount of time of the volunteers rose donated by 40% since the year 2000 to about 7. 5m hours.

Young volunteers for a ground-breaking charity-Action for Conservation (AFC), were involved in the Foreword to The State of nature. AFC recently, what she described as the largest youth-led conservation project in The World , in Penpont, in the vicinity of Gwent.

AFC volunteers Danny, 15, from Manchester (the front), and Dominic, 17, from Aylesbury, collecting oysters for research-ocean-health

Fifteen-year-old AFC volunteers Danny said: "I've been in the conservation involved because I wanted to see More wildlife, where I live, and hopefully reverse some of the devastating trends that we are seeing right now, when It Comes to climate and biodiversity.

"I think The Most important thing Young People can do to help The Environment , educating The Adults around you, the pressure on the leaders and show other Young People that even small actions can have a big impact.

He added: "the Young People understand The Urgency of The Situation we are, and we are ready to tackle The Challenge . "

Another example of charitable institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have a significant impact on The Return of the Pine marten, One of the rarest mammals in the UK, The Forest of Dean was. This re-introduction was accompanied by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and forestry in England.

Minette batters, President of The National Farmers Union (NFU), said: "agriculture has already started on a long journey, which was recorded for the protection and maintenance of the legendary British landscape; the huge amounts of work that have been done to our landscape, benefit the soil and water and promote the wildlife and farmland Birds have been in this year, 140 different species of Birds on farms during the Big Farmland Bird Count.

she added: "in the next 30 years, farmers will need More food to recover, to the demands of the growing population with less land, less water and less agricultural inputs. "

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