{"id":17307,"date":"2023-09-18T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17307"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:01:57","slug":"over-75-of-european-bumblebee-species-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/over-75-of-european-bumblebee-species-threatened","title":{"rendered":"Over 75% of European bumblebee Species Threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More than 75% of European bumblebee species may be threatened in the next 40-60 years according to a paper published in Nature.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key Points of the Study<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Population decline: <\/strong>Around 38-76% of European bumblebee species currently considered as non-threatened are projected to see their ecologically suitable territory shrink by at least 30% by 2061-2080.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Key drivers of population loss:<\/strong> Degradation of habitats and alterations of climate due to human activity are identified as key drivers of these estimated population declines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About Bumblebee<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bumblebee (Bombus) is a genus of bees considered to be especially important for the pollination of crops in the cold and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/NXym_Cnmi7JXFc8xIK4vv-Mj8RbHM8vEzcXskMPqlnwXA8nq5t943GOdFsXWzTt8EV-WOpDQJh4YZdDYboK7wssehLv4hqB0A7T37ZbebefrtF7Wh80YkYOrcytFxlpQ6Zy3BWLKct3IdgesmCqcACM\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:464px;height:464px\" width=\"464\" height=\"464\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bombus species are social bees, with each nest containing a female bee and other male and worker bees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The species live and nest in open farmland &amp; fields. It feeds on food plants like sunflowers &amp; clovers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Way Ahead<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is a need for conservation measures and policies that mitigate the human impact on important ecosystems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understanding the trajectory of insect populations is important for devising conservation efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/over-75-of-european-bumblebee-species-threatened-in-the-next-40-60-years\/article67311982.ece#:~:text=More%20than%2075%25%20of%20European,a%20paper%20published%20in%20Nature.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS3\/ Conservation In News Key Points of the Study About Bumblebee Way Ahead Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17308,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions\/17308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}