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The world has lost more than two-thirds of its population of wild animals in less than 50 years, mainly due to human activity. This was stated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), underlining the dangers of such a collapse for the future of humanity.
Between 1970 and 2016, 68% of this fauna disappeared, according to the Living Planet Index, a reference tool published every two years by WWF. The main cause is the destruction of natural habitats, especially for agriculture, a trend that runs the risk of favoring new Covid-19 pandemics: putting humans and animals in contact facilitates the transmission of viruses from species to species. This index, compiled in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, takes into account some 4,000 species of vertebrates divided into some 21,000 populations of animals around the world. There was a new acceleration in the decline of biodiversity, which had reached 60% during the last report of 2018 (period 1970/2014). “For 30 years we have seen the decline accelerate and continue in the wrong direction,” Marco Lambertini, director of WWF international, told AFP. “We are witnessing the destruction of nature by humanity. In fact, it is an ecocide.”
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