The WWF Living Planet Report 2024 highlights a global crisis, revealing a catastrophic decline of 73% in wildlife populations over the last 50 years, as measured by the Living Planet Index (LPI).. This decline, observed between 1970 and 2020, is a clear indication that our planet’s biodiversity is under immense threat, with severe consequences for ecosystems and human survival.
These six charts outline the scale of biodiversity loss - and what can be done to reach the nature-positive target. “The planet is in the midst of a biodiversity and climate crisis… and we have a last chance to act… A nature-positive future needs transformative - game changing - shifts in how we produce, how we consume, how we govern, and ...
Discover key insights from the Living Planet Report 2024 on biodiversity loss and urgent actions to protect our planet’s future. The Living Planet Report 2024 reveals that wildlife populations have dropped 73% on average since 1970. It warns that national governments are failing to meet biodiversity targets and calls for an urgent need to ...
Reversing biodiversity loss in six years demands immediate, large-scale action from various stakeholders. A UBS report calls for the world to act in 3 areas. ... Countries are currently translating its targets into national strategies and plan to review their progress at the 2024 COP biodiversity conference. It will be a race against time to ...
Global biodiversity faces ongoing threats, evidenced by a 12 per cent deterioration in the Red List Index between 1993 and 2024. Over 44,000 species, or 28 per cent of almost 160,000 assessed species, are currently threatened. They include 70 per cent of cycads and 41 per cent of amphibians.
According to WWF’s 2024 Living Planet Report, monitored wildlife populations have declined by 73% since 1970. The report reveals that freshwater species have experienced the most severe losses, with an 85% decline. Habitat loss, primarily driven by unsustainable food systems, is identified as the leading cause of biodiversity loss.
WWF’s Living Planet Report 2024 provides critical insights into plummeting wildlife populations and potential solutions. ... The linked crises of nature loss and climate change are pushing wildlife and ecosystems beyond their limits, with dangerous global tipping points threatening to damage Earth’s life-support systems and destabilize ...
The Living Planet Index (LPI) measures the average decline in monitored wildlife populations. The index value measures the change in abundance in 34,836 populations across 5,495 native species relative to the year 1970 (i.e. 1970 = 100%).
North American populations see a less dramatic but steep decline of 39 per cent. Toronto, Oct. 10, 2024 – There has been a 73 per cent decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations* globally in just 50 years (1970–2020), according to WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2024.Habitat degradation and loss is the most reported threat in each region.
The 2024 UNDP Nature Pledge Annual Report highlights significant achievements from the first year of implementing the UNDP Nature Pledge Strategy, designed to halt and reverse nature loss and ecosystem degradation. This strategic initiative aligns closely with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Paris Agreement, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
But the 2024 LPR analysis, alongside other reports like the UN’s IPBES Global Assessment report, shows that the biggest driver is habitat loss and degradation, which itself is driven by factors ranging from human activities like logging, mining and agriculture to climate impacts like worsening floods and fires.
The Living Planet Report, now in its 15 th edition, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. It’s based on the Living Planet Index (LPI), which tracks almost 35,000 population trends of 5,495 species from 1970 to 2020. Key findings from WWF’s Living Planet Report 2024 include:
On 18 December 2024, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) launched its “Transformative Change Report”, an assessment report on the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and the kind of system-wide changes needed to conserve and restore biodiversity for a more just and sustainable world.
A grim picture of the state of global biodiversity has been painted by a new paper released October 10, 2024. The Living Planet Report 2024, a biennial assessment by conservation organisation the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), revealed that the average size of monitored wildlife populations has decreased by 73 per cent since 1970.
Two-thirds of global experts are worried about extreme weather events in 2024. Extreme weather, critical change to Earth systems, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, natural resource shortages and pollution represent five of the top 10 most severe risks perceived to be faced over the next decade.
