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NATURE IS DISAPPEARING: THE AVERAGE SIZE OF WILDLIFE POPULATIONS HAS FALLEN BY A STAGGERING 73%
The latest edition of the Living Planet Report, which measures the average change in population sizes of more than 5,000 vertebrate species, shows a decline of 73% between 1970 and 2020.
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SPECIES POPULATIONS ARE PLUMMETTING
The 2024 Living Planet Index reveals the scale of the nature loss crisis. Between 1970 and 2020, the average size of wildlife populations plummeted by 73% on average. This is based on almost 35,000 population trends across 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. Regionally, the worst losses happened in Latin America and the Caribbean (-95%). Freshwater species experienced the greatest decline – a shocking 85%.