Animal population has declined

 According to a major scientific report evaluating life on the planet over the past half century, Earth's

animal population has declined by an average of 69% in less than 50 years as people continue to destroy forests, destroying the planet's population. destroy the population. consume more than the limit, and pollute one. industrial scale.

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature found that the world is facing a "dual" emergency, as the climate crisis deepens and animal populations are declining at frighteningly high levels.

The World Wildlife Fund studied more than 5,200 species for its Living Planet Report, and found that the nearly 32,000 populations analyzed have declined an average of 69% since 1970. Up to 2.5% of mammals, fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians have already become extinct, the report said.

It shows that population sizes declined by an average of 69% between 1970 and 2018, largely driven by loss and breakdown of natural habitat for agriculture, while climate change also threatens wildlife.

Species in freshwater lakes, rivers and wetlands have been worst affected, with an average decline of 83% since 1970.

The worst declines are in Latin America, where the world's largest rainforest is the Amazon, where increasing deforestation is destroying trees and the species that depend on them.

The report states that the wildlife population size in the region has declined by an average of 94% over the past half century.

And the average population numbers have only gotten worse. Four years ago, Living Planet reports saw an average drop of 60%. Then in 2020, an average of 68% were hit - a condition known as "SOS for nature".

Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF, said the two crises of nature's loss and climate change are two sides of the same coin.

Most natural systems store carbon and all of them are critical to combating climate change, with international science assessing that the planet had more nature than scenarios that raise global temperatures by 1.5 °C and climate change. Avoid the bad effects of