Wildlife populations are plummeting at a shocking rate

16 May 2008 | Science, Interesting, Nature | No Comments

Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year in one of the “great extinction episodes” in Earth’s history.

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