The latest story from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) disclosed that 52% of the world’s animals have gone vanished in 40 years.
As human population has nearly doubled itself, wildlife numbers have decreased by more than half in just 40 years (1970-2010). Let me first define this survey before getting to my story. A survey is carried by WWF (World Wildlife Fund) over 3,000 vertebrate species and the reports track the growth or decline of more than 10,000 populations.
The report is titled “Living Planet Report 2014” and states that the population of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish around the world has declined to 52% between 1970 and 2014.
Some unfortunate but true facts are given below to make an idea that how badly our wildlife is extricating:
Carter Roberts, president of WWF said, “We are gradually destroying our planet’s ability to support our (way of) life”.
“What are not complicated are the clear trends we are seeing- 39% of terrestrial wildlife gone, 39% of marine wildlife gone and 76% of freshwater wildlife gone- all in the past 40 years.”
Presenting you some detailed data of WWF report:
The oil which is exported or imported through different countries worldwide often counters the problem of leakage in oil tankers which is the main reason of marine life destruction. I just want to explain by giving this example that our leniency in not keeping a regular check on oil tankers condition causes drastic loss to our priceless marine life.
Not only marine but in every stage of biosphere only we are the cause of destroying our ecosystems by harming our natural wildlife.
Examples:
More Such Stories on Litmus News
As human population has nearly doubled itself, wildlife numbers have decreased by more than half in just 40 years (1970-2010). Let me first define this survey before getting to my story. A survey is carried by WWF (World Wildlife Fund) over 3,000 vertebrate species and the reports track the growth or decline of more than 10,000 populations.
The report is titled “Living Planet Report 2014” and states that the population of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish around the world has declined to 52% between 1970 and 2014.
Some unfortunate but true facts are given below to make an idea that how badly our wildlife is extricating:
- Elephants in Africa which could be extinct within our lifetime.
- Marine turtles have seen an 80% drop in numbers.
Carter Roberts, president of WWF said, “We are gradually destroying our planet’s ability to support our (way of) life”.
“What are not complicated are the clear trends we are seeing- 39% of terrestrial wildlife gone, 39% of marine wildlife gone and 76% of freshwater wildlife gone- all in the past 40 years.”
Presenting you some detailed data of WWF report:
- There is biggest fall in the vertebrate wildlife is in Latin America.
- The population of lion in one reserve is down in Ghana.
- World broadly, habitat loss and hunting have reduced tigers from 100,000 a century ago to just 3,000.
- Defeats of natural habitats, misuse through hunting or fishing and climate change are some of the reasons to have hiked the decline.
- In West Africa, forest felling has limited elephants to their historic range.
- Most horrible decline is among populations of freshwater species, which fell by 76% over the four decades to 2010, while marine and terrestrial numbers both fell by 39%.
The oil which is exported or imported through different countries worldwide often counters the problem of leakage in oil tankers which is the main reason of marine life destruction. I just want to explain by giving this example that our leniency in not keeping a regular check on oil tankers condition causes drastic loss to our priceless marine life.
Not only marine but in every stage of biosphere only we are the cause of destroying our ecosystems by harming our natural wildlife.
Examples:
- Deforestation effects land animals
- Dumping harmful waste in oceans, rivers and wet lands causes severe damage to marine.
- Industrialisation, smoke emitting industries causes bad effects to terrestrial wildlife.
More Such Stories on Litmus News