"60% of the Earth's vertebrates have disappeared in the last 40 years."

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 The WWF announced on the 30th that it will publish Living Planet Report 2018 in 89 countries including Korea at the same time.


The report, published every other year by WWF, comprehensively sheds light on the impact of various human consumption and development activities on species and forests, oceans, rivers and climate change throughout the globe. It is widely cited by various governments and research institutes as references. The contents of this year's report were analyzed based on the latest data collected until 2014.

The Global Life Report revealed how excessive agriculture, foreign species and new diseases affected biodiversity, health and population. The "unsustainable development" of mankind has dealt an all-round blow to the oceans, forests, coral reefs and wetlands. Twenty percent of the Amazon jungle has disappeared in just 50 years, and coral reefs have halved in 30 years. In particular, the number of vertebrates living on Earth has decreased by 60 percent over the past 40 years.

According to the report, the global ecosystem generates value worth $125 trillion a year. "All kinds of resources provided by nature are unique without substitutes," a WWF official said. "The report emphasizes the international community's overall consideration of ways to preserve and restore nature."

WWF Secretary-General Marco Lambertini said, "Humanity has taken the benefits of nature for granted and has failed to restore the rapidly damaging nature. It is time to redefine how to treat it from a cultural, economic and political perspective."

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