The Living Planet Report 2020, a joint report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, has just been released. And its results are another frustrating and tragic insight into how destructive humanity has become with respect to the Earth and its other inhabitants per the media release dated September 10, 2020.
Since 1970, the global population of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average 68% decline, determined from The Living Planet Index created by the Zoological Society of London – one of the most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity. As concluded by Dr Andrew Terry, the Zoological Society of London’s Director of Conservation, “An average decline of 68% in the past 50 years is catastrophic, and clear evidence of the damage human activity is doing to the natural world. If nothing changes, populations will undoubtedly continue to fall, driving wildlife to extinction and threatening the integrity of the ecosystems on which we all depend.”
This is yet another wake-up call for humanity that our increasing disconnection from the natural world has not been to our benefit or that of the other species around us. Awakening to Nature’s teaching, and the wisdom of the natural world, is increasingly critical to understanding how to better connect with our only home; the Earth. For it is only when humanity makes that connection more fully will we change from the unsustainable, self-destructive path we are currently on to one that will solve most, if not all, our problems.
