LIVING PLANET REPORT 2022
Wildlife populations plummet by 69%
The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.
Why are we losing nature?
Why we need a healthy planet
How we can fix it
What you can do
Interlinked emergencies: Climate change and biodiversity loss
The evidence is unequivocal – we are living through the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. Scientists are clear, unless we stop treating these emergencies as two separate issues neither problem will be addressed effectively.
Our broken relationship with nature
Climate change and biodiversity loss are not only environmental issues, but economic, development, security, social, moral and ethical issues too. Industrialised countries are responsible for most environmental degradation but it is developing nations that are disproportionately impacted by biodiversity loss. We all have a role to play in building a nature-positive society that safeguards the planet for the good health of everyone.
Tracking the health of nature over 50 years
The Living Planet Index (LPI) - which tracks populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians - reveals an average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. The 2022 LPI analysed almost 32,000 species populations. It provides the most comprehensive measure of how they are responding to pressures in their environment.
Our society is at its most important fork in history, and facing its deepest systems change challenge around, what is, perhaps the most existential of all our relationships: the one with nature.
Marco Lambertini, Director General, WWF International.
Freshwater populations hit the hardest
Monitored freshwater populations have seen an alarming decline of 83% since 1970, more than any other species groups. Habitat loss and barriers to migration routes account for around half the threats to these populations.
Biodiversity loss by region
- 1. North America
- 2. Latin America and the Caribbean
- 3. Africa
- 4. Europe and Central Asia
- 5. Asia Pacific
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Why life on Earth is under threat
A million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. Discover the main drivers behind biodiversity loss
How to fix the biodiversity crisis
From making food production and trade more efficient to reducing waste, reversing nature loss is possible
Making technology work for our planet
How technology is helping us to repair, monitor and manage Earth’s natural resources sustainably
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