Earth’s animal population has been reduced by a staggering 70% since 1970, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report 2020.
The report described the ‘fundamentally broken relationship’ between humans and animals as the root cause of the death of biodiversity, with nearly 1 million species threatened with extinction due to land use changes usually linked to agriculture.
In Latin America and the Carribean, a shocking 94% decrease in species while freshwater habitats across the globe saw an 84% drop CBS News reports. Humans are using 56% too much of the Earth’s finite resources, the WWF warned, saying that we are living as if we have 1.56 planets as opposed to just one.
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