Staggering wildlife decline

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

The latest World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report has found that half a century of human activity has decimated global wildlife populations by an average of 68 percent.

The study analysed population sizes of 4392 monitored species of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians from 1970 to 2016. Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean fared the worst, with a staggering 94 percent decline. All told, the drastic species decline tracked in this study signals “a fundamentally broken relationship between humans and the natural world,” says the WWF.

I have said before, we are part of Mother Earth's web of life — to continue as we do, our species is doomed as well.

There is nothing more important than maintaining a living planet.

We can all do something with the general election coming up next month.

Party vote Green — the only party with climate change and the environment as their top priority.

Bob Hughes