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New research has found that global wildlife populations have fallen by nearly 70% in less than 50 years. The World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Living Planet report said the huge decline between 1970 and 2018 was largely driven by the loss and break-up of natural habitat for agriculture. It found that climate change was also increasingly a threat to wildlife.

Tanya Steele is the CEO of WWF UK. She told Newsday: 鈥淟atin America region has been the most struck with a 94% loss in species in the last 50 years鈥�This is such a stark reminder for us. If wildlife and wild species can鈥檛 survive, then neither can we.鈥�

(Picture: A deforested and burnt area is seen on a stretch of the BR-230, Trans-Amazonian highway, in Humait谩, Amazonas State, Brazil, on September 16th 2022. Credit: Michael Dantas / AFP via Getty Images.)