Wildlife populations in free fall as forests cut to grow food
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The average size of wildlife populations has plummeted by two-thirds worldwide since 1970 as forests were felled to grow food, green group WWF said Thursday, warning that harming ecosystems hikes the risk to humans of infectious diseases like COVID-19. Land conversion for farming and the wildlife trade […]
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