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10 September 2020More than two-thirds of the world's wild animal population disappeared.
A decrease in 50 years.
Root cause: human activities.
It is the bleak picture of the World Wide Fund for Nature, (WWF), which highlights a collapse for the future of humanity.
Between 1970 and 2016, 68% of this fauna disappeared, according to the Living Planet Index, a reference tool published every two years by the WWF.
The main cause is the destruction of natural habitats, especially for agriculture, a trend that, it is explained, risks favoring new Covid-19 pandemics: putting humans and animals in contact facilitates the transmission of viruses from species to species.
This index, compiled in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, takes into account about 4,000 vertebrate species divided into about 21,000 animal populations around the world.
An index that is in free fall for biodiversity, which had stood at 60% during the last report of 2018 which analyzed the period 1970/2014.
"For 30 years we have seen the fall accelerate and continue in the wrong direction," said AFP Marco Lambertini, director of the international WWF. "We are witnessing the destruction of nature by humanity.
Indeed, it is an ecocide "