Sub-Saharan Africa Suffers 24 Percent Biodiversity Decline

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Details: Written by ENS-NewsWire; Category: Environmental News Articles; Published: 11 December 2025; Created: 11 December 2025; Last Updated: 11 December 2025

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 11, 2025 (ENS) - Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24 percent of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and large mammals have declined the most, finds new research from the 108-year-old School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, APES, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a multi-campus public research university known as Wits University or simply, Wits. [...]

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