By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Africa recorded an average 80% decline in the size of monitored vertebrate wildlife populations between 1970 and 2022. That's according to the WWF Living Planet Report 2026. Now while this does not mean that the number of animals in the wild have dropped by 80% - it does reflect the cumulative average proportional change in the sizes of monitored animal populations. WWF SA chief executive Dr. Morné du Plessis explains that these threatening numbers have the potential to be reduced - with proportionate conservation efforts...

<p>By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Africa recorded an average 80% decline in the size of monitored vertebrate wildlife populations between 1970 and 2022. That's according to the WWF Living Planet Report 2026. Now while this does not mean that the number of animals in the wild have dropped by 80% - it does reflect the cumulative average proportional change in the sizes of monitored animal populations. WWF SA chief executive Dr. Morn&eacute; du Plessis explains that these threatening numbers have the potential to be reduced - with proportionate conservation efforts...</p>

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