From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals –…

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From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals — were wiped out by human activity, according to WWF’s “Living Planet” report, based on an ongoing survey of more than 4,000 species spread over 16,700 populations scattered across the globe.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/nature-pushed-to-the-brink-by-runaway-consumption-1.4155297

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  • “The CBD is failing,” he told AFP. But an upcoming meeting of the 195-nation body could be the beginning of a “revolution” that will see the Convention re-engineered in 2020 into “a new deal for Nature.”

    While there’s life , there’s hope. but I fear all these gatherings have

    brought very little, if any change.

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