Posted on May 17, 2008 in Latest News
The latest statistics reveals that the wildlife population has come down drastically to one third on the population that was noted in the early 1970’s. The WWF tracks the fate of numerous species of birds, animals and mammals all around the world. This they conducted with the Living Planet Index (LPI) and observed that almost 27% of population went down in the last 35 yrs.
The main reasons for this is industrial pollution, urbanization, bad methods of farming, over fishing and poaching. All this together has contributed in rapid decline of the animal population across the globe. The LPI noticed drifts in 4000 populations of species. In this 1477 vertebrate species were studied and the clear-cut human impact was observed.
Some experts however opine that the data still is underestimated. They feel that the damages recorded is far more than the observed ones. The governments plans and polices have failed miserably in delivering the biodiversity commitments, as the decline is ongoing.
The study of LPI is based on the vast population of data sets. It relies a lot on other kinds of data’s such as fish stocks commercial data and common bird monitoring scheme etc. the figures noted clearly indicates that between the yr 1970-2005 the LPI globally has fallen by 27%. It shows that the world has failed to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss. This was set in the yr 2002 convention of Biological diversity.
The reports were released as a part of WWF information. It was entitled as “2010 and Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity Challenge.” This was published before the global meet on biodiversity.
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