Animal crossing... into extinction: Ahead of UN biodiversity summit, WWF says wildlife species disappearing faster since 1970

PARIS, Oct 10 — Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70 per cent in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of a landmark assessment by...

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Featuring data from 35,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, the WWF Living Planet Index shows accelerating declines across the globe. It found that populations under review had fallen 73 per cent since 1970, mostly due to human pressures. The report reiterates the need to simultaneously confront the “interconnected” crises of climate change and nature destruction, and warned of major “tipping points” approaching certain ecosystems.

Other threats include climate change, in particular in Latin America and the Caribbean, and pollution, notably in North America, Asia and the Pacific.The biggest decline is found in populations of freshwater species, followed by terrestrial and marine vertebrates.Continent by continent, the average decline reached 95 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by Africa, down 76 per cent, and then Asia and the Pacific, which declined 60 per cent.

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