Global biodiversity red alert

The Global Biodiversity Health Bulletin has just been released and it is alarming. Published this Thursday by the WWF, the “Living Planet” report – which compiles scientific data collected on 32,000 populations of more than 5,230 species – concludes that, “between 1970 and 2018, the average decline in vertebrate populations is 69 %”. Up from … Read more

Biodiversity. Wild species: the 10 most striking figures of the new global report

1. Half of the wild species we harvest are plants According to the new report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published this Friday, some 7,500 species of fish and wild aquatic invertebrates are directly used by people around the world. This is also the case for 31,100 species of … Read more