The Zoological Society of London and WWF have published their Living Planet Report for 2014. ...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. The report is based on the Living Planet Index, which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. But no invertebrates. This report doesnt assess the majority of wildlife on our planet. If vertebrates are in such decline, it makes you wonder how perilous the situation is for the invertebrates on which they rely for the health of their habitats and ecosystems. The Living Planet Report makes for rather sobering reading: wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:30:00 +0000
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