Living Planet Report 2024

Published on 28 Nov 2024

• The recently released Living Planet Report shows a decline in every indicator used to track nature globally.  

• The Report is a biennial assessment by conservation organisation the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

• The report uses the Living Planet Index to highlight that nature is disappearing at a frightening rate.   

Findings:

✅ The average size of monitored wildlife populations decreased by 73% in the last 50 years. 

✅ The worst trends were noticed in freshwater populations, which reduced by 85%.

 ✅ Latin America and the Caribbean  (-95%) were among the worst affected areas, and climate change is the leading cause for the loss of biodiversity in these areas.  

✅ Habitat loss and degradation, driven primarily by our food system, is the most reported threat to wildlife populations around the world.

• It is followed by overexploitation, invasive species and disease. 

✅ The report warns that, as the Earth approaches dangerous tipping points posing grave threats to humanity.

•  A tipping point is when an ecosystem is pushed beyond a critical threshold resulting in substantial and potentially irreversible change. 

Keywords:

Biodiversity World Wildlife Fund wildlife Conservation Mass extinction