{"id":63853,"date":"2022-10-19T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63853"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:58:53","slug":"animal-populations-experience-average-decline-of-almost-70-since-1970-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63853","title":{"rendered":"Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world\u2019s leading scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There was a\u00a0<\/a>64% reduction of Australian sea lion pups between 1977 and 2019 due to hunting, entanglement in fishing gear or other marine debris and disease.\u00a0<\/span>Photograph: Brad Leue\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Earth\u2019s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n

From the open ocean to tropical rainforests, the abundance of birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles is in freefall, declining on average by more than two-thirds between 1970 and 2018, according to the WWF and Zoological Society of London\u2019s (ZSL) biennial\u00a0Living Planet Report<\/a>. Two years ago, the figure\u00a0stood at 68%<\/a>, four years ago,\u00a0it was at 60<\/a>%.<\/p>\n

Many scientists believe we\u00a0are living through the sixth mass extinction<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the largest loss of life on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs \u2013 and that it is being driven by humans. The report\u2019s 89 authors are urging world leaders to reach an ambitious agreement at the\u00a0Cop15 biodiversity summit<\/a>\u00a0in Canada this December and to slash carbon emissions to limit global heating to below 1.5C this decade to halt the rampant destruction of nature.<\/p>\n

The Living Planet Index combines global analysis of 32,000 populations of 5,230 animal species to measure changes in the abundance of wildlife across continents and taxa, producing a graph akin to a stock index of life on Earth.<\/p>\n

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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world\u2019s leading scientists There was a\u00a064% reduction of Australian sea lion pups between 1977 and 2019 due to hunting, entanglement in fishing gear or other marine debris and disease.\u00a0Photograph: Brad Leue\/Alamy Earth\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33278,16470,33279,6917],"class_list":["post-63853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-age-of-extinction","tag-biodiversity-loss","tag-patrick-greenfield","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63854,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63853\/revisions\/63854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}