WWF Releases First-Ever Global Assessment of Forest Biodiversity
According to the first-ever global assessment of forest biodiversity by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), there has been a 53 per cent decline in the number of forest wildlife populations since 1970.
Highlights of the Report
- The new findings were based on the Forest Specialist Index, developed following the Living Planet Index methodology — an index that tracks wildlife that lives only in forests.
- In total, data was available for 268 species (455 populations) of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
- Of the 455 monitored populations of forest species, more than half declined at an annual rate of 1.7 per cent, ....
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