{
  "id": 12891453,
  "title": "Africa’s wildlife population plunges by 80 percent in five decades, WWF warns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/africas-wildlife-population-plunges-by-80-percent-in-five-decades-wwf",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-08T14:41:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RFI English",
    "slug": "rfi-english",
    "url": "https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20261008-africa-s-wildlife-population-plunges-by-80-percent-in-five-decades-wwf-warns"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}