Living Planet Report 2020

According to the Living Planet Report 2020, there is an opportunity to heal our relationship with nature and reduce the risk of future pandemics. Still, this better future begins with the decisions that governments, businesses, and individuals worldwide make today. World leaders must act quickly to protect and restore nature, which serves as the foundation for a healthy society and a thriving economy.

This year's Living Planet Report provides unequivocal and alarming evidence that nature is unraveling and that our planet is flashing red warning signs of vital natural system failure at a time when the world is reeling from the most profound global disruption and health crisis of a lifetime. The Living Planet Report 2020 clearly outlines how humanity's increasing destruction of nature has catastrophic consequences on the wildlife population and human health and all aspects of our lives.

The global Living Planet Index is continuing to fall. It matters because biodiversity is essential to human life on Earth, and the evidence is unequivocal: we are destroying it at an unprecedented rate in history.

The authors included the IUCN Red List Index, which tracks extinction risk; the Mean Species Abundance Index, Biodiversity Intactness Index, which looks at changes in species community composition; and the Species Habitat Index, which measures changes in species distribution, in this report.

For the first time, the Living Planet Report looks into the state of plants, which provide essential support for life on Earth and form the foundation of nearly all terrestrial ecosystems. Unfortunately, the number of documented extinctions of terrestrial plants is twice that of mammals, birds, and amphibians combined.

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