A long-tailed macaque helping itself to a banana offered by a Sumatran orang utan in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Sumatran orang utan is a critically endangered species. Photo: naturepl.com /WWF/Suzi Eszterhas
The state of our planet is not in very good shape and the time to act is now.
That is the thrust of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Living Planet Report 2016 released recently. The report, entitled “Risk and resilience in a new era”, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet, tracking over 14,000 vertebrate populations of over 3,700 species from 1970 to 2012.
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