Posts Tagged ‘ Living Planet report ’

The Dramatic Decline of Earth’s Biodiversity

Sep 19th, 2020 | By
[image: UNEP]

By Suzanne York. It feels like a moment of truth for humans and nature.  It’s obvious we are in ecological breakdown and need to change course, but will we do it? The weather is becoming increasingly erratic and harsh, from heatwaves in Europe to floods in South Asia.  Antarctica’s “doomsday” glacier is breaking. There are
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A Living Planet, But for How Long?

Oct 3rd, 2014 | By
[photo: World Wildlife Fund]

By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org The Living Planet Report 2014, an analysis of undertaken by World Wildlife Fund, the London Zoological Society, and a few other groups, just reported sobering and disturbing news:  the world is losing more species than originally thought, with the state of global wildlife populations halved in 40 years. The opening paragraph
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