A new report published by the World Wildlife Fund found that global wildlife populations have dropped a catastrophic 73 percent over the past 50 years. And not shockingly, humans are largely to blame. The research, titled the 2024 Living Planet Report , examined 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles from 1970 through 2020. The assessment, which was measured by the Living Planet Index (LPI), found that freshwater populations have suffered the greatest, with a decline...
