Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241010-wildlife-populations-plunge-73-since-1970-wwf

13 Comments

  1. > **”We have emptied the oceans of 40 percent of their biomass,”** said Yann Laurans of WWF France.

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    Jfc.

  2. Interesting-Olive842 on

    It’s gonna be great when humans are gone and nature has a few hundred million years to get back on track.

  3. If another advanced civilization ever finds itself on Earth, reviewing our geologic record, they are going to be *so* confused about the mass extinction that seemingly happened in the blink of an eye without any discernable cause

  4. EmergencyBike3152 on

    Eh this is probably somewhat balanced out by increasing populations of livestock and pets

  5. sorospaidmetosaythis on

    Time to hop on a plane to New Zealand for my vacation.

    Too bad the corporations did all this!

  6. I don’t want to be THAT GUY, but:

    > Several scientific studies published by the journal Nature have accused WWF of methodological biases in its index that lead to an exaggerated extent of the decline of animals.

    Like I’m not saying we haven’t overfished the oceans. We have. However I’m skeptical about how Daudi got that “40% of the ocean’s biomass” figure.

  7. You think feeding 8 billion people every day doesn’t displace and kill wildlife?

    Can’t have it both ways.