worldwide, The number of wild animals has shrunk drastically in recent decades. The findings of a large study of the environmental Foundation, WWF and the Zoological society of London. The decline between 1970 and 2014 amounts to an average of 60 per cent, says the Living Planet Report in 2018. The main reason is the loss of habitat for animals such as by agriculture, mining and the growth of cities.
“The Situation is really bad, and it is getting worse and worse,” said WWF Director Marco Lambertini. He urged that nature conservation is not only to protect popular animals such as tigers, Pandas and whales. For humans there could be no future if the earth’s biological diversity will be deprived.
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Life of The humanity for the “edge of a cliff”, the WWF-scientist Mike Barrett from “the Guardian”. There was a 60 percent decline in the human population, now whole countries, including North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and China. “This Klasbahis is the order of magnitude of what we have done.”
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at the same time, the Report documented a growing demand of humanity on natural resources. “Our life style is Smoking like a Chain, and binge drinking at the expense of the planet,” said Jörg-Andreas Krüger from the WWF. Still be but a turnaround is feasible.
The Report has summarized 3268 single sources, including monitoring programs by researchers and “Citizen Science” projects, in which lay the animals. The information is based on data from approximately 16.700 populations studied and about 4000 species of vertebrates in the world.
The WWF Report is published 20 years ago, for the first Time. In the current report is the twelfth edition.
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