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Title: WWF report: ‘Huge impact of human activity, 60 per cent fall in wildlife population’
Source:The Indian Express
Date:31 October 2018

Pressures exerted on the planet has led to a 60 per cent fall in wildlife population and 87 per cent decline in wetlands since 1970, the WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 has warned. Ours is also the first generation that has a “clear picture of the value of nature and the enormous impact we have on it”, the report says. “We may also be the last that can act to reverse this trend.” The report, released on 30 October 2018, paints a very grim picture of human activity on the condition of wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and the climate. It makes a case for urgent need for the global community to take stock and “collectively rethink and redefine how we value, protect and restore nature”.




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