WWF Living Planet: "Where people have done the work, wildlife has come back" (report)

Conservation successes show that large-scale change is possible, and the same approach should now be applied to the energy, food and finance systems driving nature loss, according to a report published on 7 October 2026 by WWF in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

Entitled ‘Living Planet Report 2026 - The Science of Hope’, this report assesses the state of global biodiversity and sets out the measures needed to halt and reverse its decline by 2030, the target year of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This decline is well-documented and, moreover, has not yet been halted: the vertebrate populations monitored fell by an average of 73 per cent between 1970 and 2022.

However, the report identifies reasons for hope, based on tangible signs. In its…