A victim of poachers in Kenya: elephants are among the species most impacted by humans, the WWF report found.
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The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.
The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and […]
I believe that if we all became vegetarians that it would go a long way toward helping the problem, but only population control can stop the devastation we humans have done. Water shortage is the major source of the problem we all face, and that cannot be solved without stopping climate change which we have created, and I see no clear path to solving that problem. I’m afraid we may have doomed the planet and all life on it already, sorry to say.