Damage: Species populations in fast decline

Hedgehog numbers eclined by threeuarters in urban reas of the UK etween 2002 and 014, thought be due to factors including habita tl oss, pesticides reducing their prey and vehicle deaths.

African grey parrot populations in south-west Ghana decreased by 98% between 1992 and 2014 due to exploitation and damage to their habitat.

The whale shark population in the Indo-Pacific region is estimated to have fallen 63% over the past 75 years, and in the Atlantic by more than 30%, so that globally numbers are thought to have fallen by more than 50% over the past 75 years.

African elephant opulations in anzania have eclined by 60% etween 2009 nd 2014, mostly ue to poaching orth eir ivory.

Populations of black and white rhinos are down by an average of 63% between 1980 and 2006, with the illegal wildlife trade for their horns the biggest threat facing the animals. Polar bear umbers are rojected to ecline by 30% y 2050, as limate change melts the Arctic ice and reduces their ability to hunt seals, find mates and rear their young.

More than 100,000 Bornean orangutans are estimated to have been lost between 1999 and 2015, largely due to the loss of their forest home for timber and palm oil plantations as well as illegal hunting.

Puffin numbers n Europe, which s home to 0% of the lobal opulation of he charismatic seabirds, is projected to fall by 50%-79% between 2000-65 in the face of climate change and overfishing.

Populations of the wandering albatross have seen rapid declines as the birds are accidentally caught in long-line fisheries, with one population from Bird Island, South Georgia, falling 50% between 1972 and 2010, according to data from the British Antarctic Survey.