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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Rebecca Shaw, chief scientist at the World Wildlife Fund, about the organization's new Living Planet Report that shows a huge drop in global wildlife population.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Rebecca Shaw, chief scientist at the World Wildlife Fund, about the organization's new Living Planet Report that shows a huge drop in global wildlife population.
Latin America and the Caribbean were particularly heavily struck, with a 94 per cent decline in wildlife populations in just five decades.
The world's wildlife populations have declined by more than two-thirds since 1970 as forests have been cleared and oceans polluted, according to an assessment released on Thursday.
Since February 1 military coup last year, the online trade in endangered wildlife species and products rose to 74 per cent.