{"id":38013,"date":"2025-09-23T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:53:08","slug":"canada-wildlife-decline-most-severe-in-decades-wwf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38013\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada wildlife decline \u2018most severe\u2019 in decades, WWF says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Species globally assessed as at-risk of extinction in Canada, such as the North Atlantic right whale and leatherback sea turtle, declined by 43%, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Regions such as the boreal forest with lower levels of human presence saw smaller decreases, while habitats in Canada\u2019s grasslands declined 62%.<\/p>\n

Last year, WWF reported a global wildlife population decline of 73% since 1970.<\/p>\n

Conservation expert Jessica Curie, who worked on the report, told AFP that habitat reduction \u2013 largely because of agricultural expansion \u2013 \u201cis one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report notes Canada\u2019s economic reliance on its vast natural resources, but says conservation needs to be front of mind in management of industrial or infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

One successful example she pointed to was projects reducing shipping noise to protect whale populations off Canada\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n

WWF noted that actions to reverse population loss were already laid out in Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreement signed in 2022 at COP 15 in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Canada aims to meet those targets by protecting 30% of its lands and oceans and restoring 30% of degraded lands by 2030.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Species globally assessed as at-risk of extinction in Canada, such as the North Atlantic right whale and leatherback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3093,275,15364,9060,29384,11591,9881,295,2964,24176,78,685,3025,111,139,69,1523,34864,1560,3048,312,147,2848,3649,1865,406,102,377,34863],"class_list":["post-38013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-biodiversity","tag-canada","tag-century","tag-decades","tag-decline","tag-extinction","tag-facing","tag-fund","tag-half","tag-hundreds","tag-in","tag-last","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-plunged","tag-report","tag-said","tag-says","tag-science","tag-severe","tag-species","tag-today","tag-wildlife","tag-with","tag-world","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}