The World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet report makes for unsettling reading. It highlights what it calls an “astonishing” 60 per cent fall in wildlife populations in little over 40 years. As mankind’s footprint continues to grow — only a quarter of all land remains substantially free of the impact of human activities, and this is projected to decline to 10 per cent by 2050 — wildlife is visibly suffering.
世界自然基金會(World Wildlife Fund)最新的《地球生命力報告》(The Living Planet Report)讀來令人不安。該報告強調，在過去40余年的時間里，野生動物種群數量減少了“令人震驚的”60%。隨著人類足跡不斷拓展——地球上只有四分之一的土地基本不受人類活動的影響，預計到2050年該比例將下降至10%——野生動物顯然正在遭受磨難。
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