Every day brought the promise of new discoveries, and many mornings I found myself waiting impatiently for the first glimmer of dawn to peek through the canopy, fading from deep indigo to soft gold as it filtered through the leaves and revealed a slumbering world come to life.
According to the 2024 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), globally monitored wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% in just 50 years, driven mostly by habitat destruction, overexploitation, and climate change.
This decline has a dangerous ripple effect. Earth's wild places cannot long survive the loss of its wildlife. And human civilization, despite its undeniable progress and technological wonders, remains bound to the health of the one planet we all call home.
Much of that pristine forest had vanished, felled to make way for human settlements. One governor handed out chainsaws to newly minted landowners with the gusto of Oprah handing out car keys.
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