According to WWF Report, Global wildlife populations have sunk 69% since 1970

Pollution, climate change, human exploitation, deforestation and human exploitation were the biggest drivers of the loss

According to an assessment by the World Wildlife Fund, the world's wildlife populations have declined by more than two-thirds since 1970. This decline is due to the fact that forests have been cleared and oceans are polluted. Andrew Terry, the director of conservation and policy at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said, “This serious drop … tells us that nature is unraveling and the natural world is emptying.” The report used the data from 2018 on the status of 32,000 wildlife populations covering more than 5,000 species. It found that population sizes had declined by 69% on average.  

Pollution, climate change, human exploitation, deforestation and human exploitation were the biggest drivers of the loss. Wildlife populations in the Caribbean and Latin America were hit especially hard, experiencing a 94% drop in just five decades. The population of pink river dolphins in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 65% between 1994 and 2016, the report said. The WWF’s findings were broadly similar to those in its 2020 assessment, with the wildlife population sizes continuing to decline at a rate of about 2.5% per year, Terry said. "Nature was in dire straits and it is still in dire straits," said Mark Wright, director of science at WWF-UK. "The war is definitely being lost."