WWF’s mission is to stop CONTENTS the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. [...] A 94% as-yet-undiscovered, species that are also under threat? What is decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the happening to the life in our soils, or in plant and insect diversity? largest fall observed in any part of the world. [...] Adding new data and taxa into the Living Planet Database, the collection of population trends that are the key components of the LPI, helps to make the index a better reflection of trends in biodiversity. [...] COMPOSITIONhas fallen to 66% of its pre-impact value and is falling by 1.1% per Indicators of the extent and structural condition of ecosystems, decade, whereas the BII has fallen to 79% of its pre-impact value of the composition of ecological communities, and of species and is declining by 0.8% per decade 1. [...] The decline in the butterfly index is largely attributed to the intensification of agriculture in Northwest Europe and the abandonment of grasslands in other areas 90.
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