Armed conflicts a threat to wildlife: study

Population decline is seen, particularly for species recognised by IUCN as being at risk of extinction

War and armed civil strife, apart from being a cause of widespread human suffering, also pose a significant but under-recognised threat to thousands of mammal and bird species, according to a new study published in the journal, Conservation Letters. The study was conducted by researchers from Wildlife Conservation Society-India (WCS-India), Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Panthrea, by analysing maps of regions of armed conflicts, species geographical range maps, and information on conservation threats to terrestrial mammal and bird species across the world.