{"id":134454,"date":"2024-10-10T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T06:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wildlife-numbers-fall-by-73-in-50-years-global-stocktake-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T06:05:16","slug":"wildlife-numbers-fall-by-73-in-50-years-global-stocktake-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/wildlife-numbers-fall-by-73-in-50-years-global-stocktake-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134454\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Wildlife populations have plummeted, mainly due to habitat loss, WWF figures reveal. Human activity is continuing to drive what conservation charity the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) calls a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; loss of species. From elephants in tropical forests to hawksbill turtles off the Great Barrier Reef, populations are plummeting, according to a stocktake of the world&#8217;s wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>The Living Planet Report, a comprehensive overview of the state of the natural world, reveals global wildlife populations have shrunk by an average of 73% in the past 50 years. The loss of wild spaces was &#8220;putting many ecosystems on the brink&#8221;, WWF UK head Tanya Steele said, and many habitats, from the Amazon to coral reefs, were &#8220;on the edge of very dangerous tipping points&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report is based on the Living Planet Index of more than 5,000 bird, mammal, amphibian, reptile and fish population counts over five decades. Among many snapshots of human-induced wildlife loss, it reveals 60% of the world&#8217;s Amazon pink river dolphins have been wiped out by pollution and other threats, including mining and civil unrest. It also captured hopeful signs of conservation success.<\/p>\n<p>A sub-population of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of East Africa increased by about 3% per year between 2010 and 2016, for example. But the WWF said these \u201cisolated successes are not enough, amid a backdrop of the widespread destruction of habitats\u201d. Tom Oliver, professor of ecology at the University of Reading, who is unconnected with the report, said when this information was combined with other datasets, insect declines for example, &#8220;we can piece together a robust &#8211; and worrying &#8211; picture of global biodiversity collapse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The report found habitat degradation and loss was the biggest threat to wildlife, followed by overexploitation, invasive species, disease, climate change and pollution. Lead author and WWF chief scientific adviser Mike Barrett said through human action, &#8220;particularly the way that we produce and consume our food, we are increasingly losing natural habitat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The report also warns nature loss and climate change are fast pushing the world towards irreversible tipping points, including the potential &#8220;collapse&#8221; of the Amazon rainforest, whereby it can no longer lock away planet-warming carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change. &#8220;Please don&#8217;t just feel sad about the loss of nature,&#8221; Mr Barrett said. &#8220;Be aware that this is now a fundamental threat to humanity and we&#8217;ve really got to do something now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y3j0vzpl3o\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y3j0vzpl3o\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/wildlife-numbers-fall-by-73-in-50-years-global-stocktake-finds\/\">Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4527,4782,606,607,608,1173],"class_list":["post-134454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fall","tag-numbers","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}