The new World Wildlife Fund report, which draws upon the Living Planet Index managed by the group and the Zoological Society of London, assesses the state of 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles around the world. It shows the extent to which human activity is decimating wildlife through habitat destruction, overexploitation and other causes. The worst average declines were in Latin America and the Caribbean, at 95 percent, followed by Africa at 76 percent. |
| | Climate Alert | Oct. 9, 7:02 p.m. EDT | | | The new World Wildlife Fund report, which draws upon the Living Planet Index managed by the group and the Zoological Society of London, assesses the state of 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles around the world. It shows the extent to which human activity is decimating wildlife through habitat destruction, overexploitation and other causes. The worst average declines were in Latin America and the Caribbean, at 95 percent, followed by Africa at 76 percent. | | | | |
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