Africa: Africa's Wildlife Population Plunges By 80% in Five Decades, WWF Warns
[RFI] Wildlife populations monitored across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades, according to a major new assessment by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which warns that changes to energy, food and financial systems are essential to reversing biodiversity loss.
A new assessment by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reveals that wildlife populations across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades. This finding, highlighted in the Living Planet Report 2026, indicates that Africa recorded the second-largest regional decline after Latin America and the Caribbean, where monitored wildlife populations fell by an average of 95 percent.
The Asia-Pacific region experienced a 49 percent decline, while the global average was 73 percent. The report emphasizes the urgency for changes in energy, food, and financial systems to reverse biodiversity loss, with climate change, habitat destruction, overexploitation, pollution, invasive species, and disease identified as the main threats facing wildlife worldwide.
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