2.9 Billion Song Birds gone in North America

[Catherine]

A study shows that in North America there are 2.9 billion less song birds that there were in 1970.
This is a shocking loss of birds and it is a bigger decline than was expected. It is a biodiversity crisis of a magnitude that is staggering.
We have lost so many birds, but the majority are sparrows, starlings, juncos and warblers. These are the basic ordinary birds that fill our forests and cities. 
This fits with the UN report that shows that plants and other animals are also declining.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bird-...-1.5288454

We are clearly in a global biodiversity emergency. We need to actively do things as individuals and as countries to reverse this trend. 
There needs to be a preservation of existing habitats. There also needs to be a restoration of lost habitats.  We have acted and saved things before. The monarch butterflies were in  a serious decline and human efforts to plant milkweed and preserve habitat have reversed the trend. The monarchs are increasing again.

We need to do this for the North American birds and for all the species  in danger.
When you add that to fighting climate change we have a lot of work to do to fix the problems we have caused in the first place.