Wildlife populations down 73% since 1970 | New report
The latest edition of a landmark World Wildlife Fund assessment released on Thursday shows that wild populations of monitored species have plummeted by more than 70 per cent in the last half century.
The WWF Living Planet Index, which includes data on 35,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, shows that the decline is accelerating across the globe. Animal population loss is as high as 95 per cent in biodiversity-rich regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rather than tracking the numbers of individual animals, the report tracks trends in the abundance of a wide range of species. It found that the populations surveyed had declined by 73 per cent since 1970, largely as a result of human pressure.
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