Living Planet Index 2016
ENVIRONMENT, 31 Oct 2016
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Oct 2016 – The world’s biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Population sizes of vertebrate species have more than halved in little more than 40 years.
The LPI, which measures trends in thousands of populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe shows a decline of 58 per cent between 1970 and 2012. If current trends continue, the decline could reach two-thirds by 2020.
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