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Don't go the way of the Dodo

• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/19/humans-creating-sixth-great-extinction-of-animal-species-say-scientists

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years'

• http://www.wwf.ca/newsroom/reports/wwf_living_planet_report_2016.cfm

• http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622

• http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/27/our-planet-could-be-facing-the-mass-extinction-of-wildlife-report.html

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-three-fifths-vertebrates-wiped-since-1970-wwf-001527916.html

Challenge: To Preserve and Protect Life on Planet Earth

Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth

The Living Planet Index (LPI)

Tracking the health of nature over 50 years

The Living Planet Index (LPI)—which tracks populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians—reveals an average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. The 2022 LPI analyzed almost 32,000 species populations. It provides the most comprehensive measure of how they are responding to pressures in their environment.

Living Planet Report 2022

Via the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

• https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

Wildlife populations plummet by 69%

The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.

Interlinked emergencies: Climate change and biodiversity loss

The evidence is unequivocal—we are living through the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. Scientists are clear: unless we stop treating these emergencies as two separate issues neither problem will be addressed effectively.

Our broken relationship with nature

Climate change and biodiversity loss are not only environmental issues, but economic, development, security, social, moral, and ethical issues too. Industrialized countries are responsible for most environmental degradation but it is developing nations that are disproportionately impacted by biodiversity loss. We all have a role to play in building a nature-positive society that safeguards the planet for the good health of everyone.

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