The World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet report makes for unsettling reading. It highlights what it calls an “astonishing” 60 per cent fall in wildlife populations in little over 40 years. As mankind’s footprint continues to grow — only a quarter of all land remains substantially free of the impact of human activities, and this is projected to decline to 10 per cent by 2050 — wildlife is visibly suffering.
世界自然基金会(World Wildlife Fund)最新的《地球生命力报告》(The Living Planet Report)读来令人不安。该报告强调，在过去40余年的时间里，野生动物种群数量减少了“令人震惊的”60%。随着人类足迹不断拓展——地球上只有四分之一的土地基本不受人类活动的影响，预计到2050年该比例将下降至10%——野生动物显然正在遭受磨难。
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