{"id":927,"date":"2018-03-03T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.ambogdan.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2020-11-03T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:05:10","slug":"world-wildlife-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambogdan.com\/world-wildlife-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wild Life Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Wildlife Day 2018 is celebrated on March 3rd, under the theme\u00a0\u201cBig cats: predators under threat”.\u00a0<\/em>It’s an opportunity to celebrate Mother Nature’s creative power and generosity. Today is the day to remind ourselves\u00a0“the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

24,431 Endangered species of animals and organisms<\/h4>\n

Every two years World Wildlife organization issues the Living Planet Report that uses the Living Planet Index (LPI) as a measure of the state of the world’s biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. 2016 Living Planet Report revealed the extremely troubling and ugly truth humanity needs to face.<\/p>\n

“For the first time since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we face a global mass extinction of wildlife,”<\/em> says Mike Barrett, director of science and policy at WWF-UK, in a statement. “We ignore the decline of other species at our peril \u2014 for they are the barometer that reveals our impact on the world that sustains us.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The overall decline of all three LPIs \u00a0between 1970 and 2012 posses a real threat to Mother Nature and humans as well:<\/p>\n