{"id":101261,"date":"2020-09-17T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=101261"},"modified":"2020-09-17T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:40:16","slug":"living-planet-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/living-planet-report-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Planet Report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question:Consider the following with respect to Living Planet Report 2020:<\/strong><br>(1) It is released by World Wildlife Fund.<br>2) One of the most threatened biodiversity globally has been freshwater biodiversity.<br>3) The largest wildlife population loss has been in Africa.<br><strong>Which is\/are correct?<\/strong><br>(a) 1 and 2<br>(b) 2 and 3<br>(c) 1 and 3<br>(d) 1,2 and 3<br><strong>Answer:(a)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Context:<\/li><li>Living Planet Report 2020 has been released<\/li><li>Facts:<\/li><li>Released by: World Wildlife Fund. It is published every two years since 1998.<\/li><li>It is based on the Living Planet Index and ecological footprint calculations.<\/li><li>Key Takeaways from Living Planet Report 2020<\/li><li>There has been a reduction of 68% in the global wildlife population between 1970 and 2016.<\/li><li>75% of the Earth\u2019s ice-free land surface has already been significantly altered, most of the oceans are polluted, and more than 85% of the area of wetlands has been lost during this period.<\/li><li>The most important direct driver of biodiversity loss has been land-use change, primarily the conversion of pristine habitats into agricultural systems.<\/li><li>The highest biodiversity loss due to land use change globally has been found in Europe and Central Asia at 57.9%, followed by North America at 52.5%, Latin America and Caribbean at 51.2%, Africa at 45.9% and Asia at 43%.<\/li><li>One of the most threatened biodiversity globally has been freshwater biodiversity.<\/li><li>The largest wildlife population loss has been in Latin America (94%)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:Arpit Mishra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/jrc\/en\/science-update\/wwf-living-planet-report-2020-reveals-68-drop-wildlife-populations#:~:text=WWF%20Living%20Planet%20Report%202020%20reveals%2068%25%20drop%20in%20wildlife%20populations,-The%20numbers%20of&amp;text=The%20World%20Wildlife%20Fund%20(WWF,years%20(1970%2D2016).\">https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/jrc\/en\/science-update\/wwf-living-planet-report-2020-reveals-68-drop-wildlife-populations#:~:text=WWF%20Living%20Planet%20Report%202020%20reveals%2068%25%20drop%20in%20wildlife%20populations,-The%20numbers%20of&amp;text=The%20World%20Wildlife%20Fund%20(WWF,years%20(1970%2D2016).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:Consider the following with respect to Living Planet Report 2020:(1) It is released by World Wildlife Fund.2) One of the most threatened biodiversity globally has been freshwater biodiversity.3) The largest wildlife population loss has been in Africa.Which is\/are correct?(a) 1 and 2(b) 2 and 3(c) 1 and 3(d) 1,2 and 3Answer:(a) Context: Living Planet Report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2520],"class_list":["post-101261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-current-affairs-international-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101263,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101261\/revisions\/101263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}