TIL: We Have Lost 50% of Wildlife Since 1970 | Today I Learned

so one thing that really surprised me
was from 1970 to 2010 you know in 40
years we’ve lost over half our wildlife
populations in 2014 there was a study
that was done and basically what they do
is they look at elephants and tigers and
fish and and all these sorts of animals
that we consider very very important and
they look at how they change over time
and they found that from 1970 to 2010 we
had a 52% decline in those numbers then
it wasn’t until we started
industrializing everything
industrializing fishing and just
realizing you know energy production and
all these kinds of things where we
started to really impact these
environments in a way that was no longer
sustainable and it’s not until we see
the impact that it has on the
environment the impact it has on other
species that we start to think twice
about what we’re doing the amazing thing
about a lot of these ecosystems and then
the amazing thing about the environment
is it’s actually pretty resilient to
change and so if we just stop doing the
small things that are damaging it it’ll
bounce back you have to believe that we
can make a difference that we can save
these species or we could protect these
areas and that it’s not a lost cause one
thing that maybe people don’t know is
that there are glow-in-the-dark shell