{"id":281700,"date":"2016-10-26T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281700"},"modified":"2020-10-31T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:24:28","slug":"world-wildlife-falls-by-58-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/world-wildlife-falls-by-58-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"World wildlife \u201cfalls by 58% in 40 years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Total destruction of Elohim\u2019s creation on the way\u2026 but Natural Order will destroy those who destroy.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, a report says.<\/p>\n<p>The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The figures suggest that animals living in lakes, rivers and wetlands are suffering the biggest losses.<\/p>\n<p>Human activity, including habitat loss, wildlife trade, pollution and climate change contributed to the declines.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mike Barrett. head of science and policy at WWF, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear under &#8216;business as usual&#8217; we will see continued declines in these wildlife populations. But I think now we&#8217;ve reached a point where there isn&#8217;t really any excuse to let this carry on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know what the causes are and we know the scale of the impact that humans are having on nature and on wildlife populations &#8211; it really is now down to us to act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However the methodology of the report has been criticised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-37775622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-37775622<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Total destruction of Elohim\u2019s creation on the way\u2026 but Natural Order will destroy those who destroy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}