Swiss bearded vulture rare win amid global wildlife catastrophe

The reintroduction of the bearded vulture in Switzerland is one of the few positive ecological stories of the last 50 years, which saw three-quarters of wild animals disappear from view, according to WWF. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the bleak picture reported by World Wildlife Fund for Nature experts in the Living Planet Report 2024. The main culprit is the consumer society in Europe and North America. + Swiss biodiversity loss in six graphs WWF is calling for a global nature conservation offensive: protected areas must be expanded and the destruction of species-rich habitats stopped. Healthy wildlife populations are essential for an intact environment, and their disappearance endangers people's food security. According to WWF studies of 35,000 wild animal populations from 5,495 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, wild animal populations have declined globally by 73% since 1970. + Farmers provide resistance to Swiss ...