World could lose 2/3 of wild animals by 2020
Click here for reuse options!The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.
The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.
World’s wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans – in pictures
The collapse of wildlife is, with climate change, the most striking sign of the Anthropocene, a proposed new geological era in which humans dominate the planet. “We are no longer a small world on a big planet. We are now a big world on a small planet, where we have reached a saturation point,” said Prof Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in a foreword for the report.
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Warman1138 October 27th, 2016 at 15:07
Interdependency among lifeforms is a trademark of nature, remove one and a cascade effect can occur affecting many more, especially us.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker October 27th, 2016 at 16:55
Heartbreaking what we are doing as a species.
Future generations will not forgive us for what we are knowingly doing to our only home.
Willys41 October 27th, 2016 at 17:25
Assuming that there will be “future generations” of humans may not be scientifically sound.
Bunya October 28th, 2016 at 14:41
When we lose our animals, we’re next to go. It astounds me that many right wing Christians think it’s okay to destroy the earth because “Jesus is coming in our lifetime”. Jesus has been coming for the past 2000 years – and he STILL hasn’t made it here. Our only hope is that these crazy nut jobs who don’t believe in global warming die off soon and leave the preservation of living things up to the scientists.