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WORLDWIDE, WILDLIFE SUFFERS 52% POPULATION DECLINE

 

By Miriam Raftery

September 30, 2014 (San Diego’s East County) - Over the last 40 years, total wildlife populations on earth have fallen by 52%. That’s the grim finding of the London Zoological Society’s Living Planet Index, the BBC reports.


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