Globally, biodiversity has declined substantially in the last 50 years, and in Scotland 1 in 9 (11%) species are currently threatened with extinction.The PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) team at the Natural History Museum has calculated a global Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) to assess each country's biodiversity, and how it's responding to human pressures such as land use change and intensification.BII的90%或以上意味着该地区具有足够的生物多样性,可以成为一个有弹性且运转的生态系统。在90%以下,进一步的生物多样性损失意味着生态系统的功能可能不佳且不太可靠。如果BII为30%或以下,则该国的生物多样性已经耗尽,生态系统可能有崩溃的风险。整个英国的BII为53%,在全球最低的10%处。
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