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GOOD NEWS SUNDAY | October 11, 2026
WILDLIFE COMEBACKS
Wildlife populations have fallen 73 percent on average since 1970.
That is the headline figure in the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report 2026, published October 7. The number is an average of change in monitored population sizes. It is not a count of animals lost. The index, produced by the Zoological Society of London, covers 35,803 population trends across 5,790 vertebrate species from 1970 to 2022.
Inside that average, the report finds recoveries. About half of the monitored populations are stable or increasing. WWF puts the split at 7 percent stable and 43…
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