“Many scientists believe we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction, the greatest loss of life forms on Earth since the days of the dinosaurs,” alert The Guardian about the report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) this Thursday, October 13.
Entitled “Living Planet”, the 2022 report from the environmental protection organisation, in partnership with the Zoological Society of London, studied more than 5,000 animal species. The goal: “evaluate changes in the abundance of wild species on all continents and in all taxa. The data collected produces a chart similar to a stock market index, but for life on Earth,” details the British daily.
“Nature is on her knees”, writes WWF on its site. The conclusions of the study report an alarming loss, which exceeded the pr