Wildlife populations monitored throughout the globe have declined by an enormous 69% between 1970 and 2018, in accordance with the WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022.
Featuring nearly 32,000 populations of 5,230 species, the Living Planet Index (LPI) offered in the report reveals it’s inside tropical areas that monitored vertebrate wildlife populations are plummeting at a staggering charge.
“Latin America and the Caribbean regions have seen the largest decline of monitored wildlife populations globally– an average decline of 94% during the period,” the report stated.
Wildlife populations have dipped by 66% in Africa and 55% in the Asia Pacific. Freshwater populations have declined by 83% on common in comparison with different species teams, in accordance with the report.
The IUCN Red List reveals cycads are probably the most threatened species, whereas corals are declining the quickest, adopted by amphibians.
Habitat loss and boundaries to migration routes are liable for about half of the threats to monitored migratory fish species, the WWF stated.
The report stated the primary drivers of wildlife inhabitants decline are habitat degradation and loss, exploitation, introduction of invasive species, air pollution, local weather change and illness.
Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, stated: “We face the double emergencies of human-induced climate change and biodiversity loss, threatening the well-being of current and future generations.
“WWF is extraordinarily fearful by this new information exhibiting a devastating fall in wildlife populations, in specific in tropical areas which are house to a few of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world.”
- Wildlife populations monitored throughout the globe have declined by an enormous 69% between 1970 and 2018, in accordance with the WWF’s Living Planet Report 2022
- Wildlife populations have dipped by 66% in Africa and 55% in the Asia Pacific
- The report stated the primary drivers of wildlife inhabitants decline are habitat degradation and loss, exploitation, introduction of invasive species, air pollution, local weather change and illness
