{"id":86924,"date":"2019-08-17T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2019-08-17T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T09:06:13","slug":"more-than-half-of-forest-wildlife-declined-since-1970-wwf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-than-half-of-forest-wildlife-declined-since-1970-wwf\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of forest wildlife declined since 1970: WWF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released the \u201c<em>Below the Canopy report<\/em>\u201d. It is the\nworld\u2019s first-ever global assessment of forest-living species populations.<\/li><li>The report uses the methodology of WWF\u2019s Living\nPlanet Report (Living Planet Index) and developed a Forest Specialist Index that\ntracks wildlife that lives only in forests. In total, the report took into\naccount 268 species (455 populations) of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.<\/li><li>According to the report, there has been a 53% decline\nin the number of forest wildlife populations since 1970. Of the 455 monitored\npopulations, more than half declined at an annual rate of 1.7%, on average\nbetween 1970 and 2014.<\/li><li>The report has noted that along with\ndeforestation there were other major threats that has led to decline in\nwildlife populations. These include: Habitat loss and habitat\ndegradation\/change, overexploitation and climate change. <\/li><li>Loss of habitat due to logging, agricultural\nexpansion, mining, hunting, conflicts and spread of diseases accounted for\nalmost 60% of threats. Nearly 20% of threats were due to overexploitation.<\/li><li>Climate change threatened to 43% of amphibian\npopulations, 37% of reptile populations, 21% of bird populations but only 3% of\nmammal populations.<\/li><li>In October 2018 WWF published the Living Planet\nReport. The report highlighted that global populations of fish, birds, mammals,\namphibians and reptiles have decreased by an average of 60% between 1970 and\n2014.<\/li><li>In an effort to conserve nature, world leaders\nhave agreed to launch a <em>New Deal for\nNature and People<\/em> at 15th Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) COP in\n2020 in China.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released the \u201cBelow the Canopy report\u201d. It is the world\u2019s first-ever global assessment of forest-living species populations. The report uses the methodology of WWF\u2019s Living Planet Report (Living Planet Index) and developed a Forest Specialist Index that tracks wildlife that lives only in forests. In total, the report took&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-than-half-of-forest-wildlife-declined-since-1970-wwf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than half of forest wildlife declined since 1970: WWF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4617],"class_list":["post-86924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-below-the-canopy-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704827548},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}