The world's wildlife has declined by 69 percent in five decades

Due to deforestation and pollution of sea water, the number of wildlife in the world is decreasing. In the last five decades, this rate has reached 69 percent. A recent report by the World Wildlife Fund (Dobsnowdbisnuf) has highlighted this information.

 According to the report, the world's wildlife has declined by more than two-thirds since 1970. According to Andrew Terry, director of conservation and policy at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), this is a 'serious decline'. In this event, it is clear that nature is unfolding and the natural world is becoming empty.

The report was compiled by using ZSL's 2018 data on the status of nearly 32,000 species of over 5,000 species. It showed that the number of wildlife has decreased by an average of 69 percent. Deforestation, human interference, pollution and climate change are mostly blamed for this.

The largest wildlife declines are in Latin America and the Caribbean. Those areas have lost 94 percent of their wildlife in just five decades. In addition, the number of pink river dolphins in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased by 65 percent between 1994 and 2016.

Terry said these results are very similar to the 2020 assessment . It shows that the number of wild animals is decreasing by about 2.5 percent every year.

Nature was, and still is, in a terrible state, said Mark Wright, director of science. The war is definitely losing.

However, the report also showed some glimmers of hope. Gorilla numbers in Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park fell by 80 percent between 1994 and 2019, but in the nearby mountains of Virunga National Park, the animal's number has risen from about 400 in 2010 to more than 600 in 2018.

Still, calls for more cooperation to halt the rapid decline of wildlife are growing. Representatives from around the world will gather in Montreal next December to develop new strategies to protect the world's flora and fauna. There are increasing calls for increased funding for animal conservation efforts worldwide. Alise Ruhweza, regional director for Africa, said, "We are calling on rich countries to provide financial support to protect nature."

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