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Nearly 69% of vertebrates have disappeared between 1970 and 2018: this is what the 2022 Living Planet report from the WWF reports. This phenomenon of large-scale species extinction has a name: the sixth extinction. This is the subject of Talk franceinfo. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
Since 1998, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) publishes, every two years, the “Living Planet” Report which measures the state of biodiversity on the planet. Thursday, October 13, the latest WWF report “Living Planet” was published and draws an alarming report on the situation of biodiversity on Earth.
Yann Laurans, head of the biodiversity division at WWF-France and Juliette Lenrouilly, editor-in-chief for Nowu are in the Talk to discuss it.
As the name suggests, the sixth extinction is not the first that the Earth has experienced. The planet has already experienced five massive species extinctions. However, the specificity of this sixth mass extinction is that it is essentially linked to human activity.
The degradation of the habitat of certain species linked to agriculture, deforestation or even mining are, according to the report, the major causes of the massive extinction of a part of life. Furthermore, hunting and fishing also play a major role in the overexploitation of animals. Finally, climate change also has a considerable impact in the sixth extinction.
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