Living Planet Report 2026

• The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) published the ‘Living Planet Report 2026’ on October 8, 2026.

• The report reveals a 73 percent global decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2022.

• This decline reflects the growing crisis facing biodiversity worldwide.

• The report utilizes the ‘Living Planet Index’ (LPI), which assesses relative changes in vertebrate populations over time.

• It encompasses fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The study analyzed trends across a total of 35,803 populations representing 5,790 species.

• However, the 73 percent decline recorded in the report does not imply that 73 percent of the world's wildlife species have gone extinct.

• This figure merely reflects the reduction in the average size of the wildlife populations included in the study.