Message from the World Wildlife Fund International Director General
“The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. One key point that jumps out and captures the overall picture is that the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, has declined by 52 percent since 1970. Put another way, in less than two human generations, population sizes of vertebrate species have dropped by half. These are the living forms that constitute the fabric of the ecosystems which sustain life on Earth–and the barometer of what we are doing to our own planet, our only home. We ignore their decline at our peril.”
by Marco Lambertini
Full report: Living Planet Report 2014