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Part of @zslofficial.bsky.social | The Living Planet Index is a measure of the state of the world's #biodiversity based on population trends of vertebrate species globally

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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In march, the first Global butterfly Index using the LPI approach was published in @consletters.bsky.social @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social
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Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation
The conservation community sorely lacks a global indicator of change in insect populations. Given widespread insect declines, addressing this gap is key for conservation and policy targets. We sugges...
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A new paper using data from the Living Planet Database (LPD) has been published in @science.org examining how threats are driving global vertebrate population declines. This work highlights the value of the LPD’s threat data for understanding biodiversity change at a global scale 🌍.
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Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss
Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
After being declared biologically dead in 1957, the Thames is recovering due to major conservation action. Reporting on the Thames’ bird populations was carried out by modelling a Living Thames Index, developed using the Living Planet Index methodology. 🦆 🔗 Follow the link to read the report!
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The State Of The Thames | ZSL
Since it was declared biologically dead in 1957 in parts, the River Thames has made an astounding recovery. Read the results of the first complete health check of the river.
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
At the LPI every record is checked using a strict protocol. If a population trend meets our criteria, it’s included! ✅ We don’t compare absolute population sizes - only relative change over time. This makes trends comparable across the Living Planet Index, even if methods and units vary. 📊
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
While the Living Planet Database contains 1000s of populations, gaps remain for many species groups and regions. Fish are currently the most underrepresented taxa in the database. Have data that could fill a gap? We’d love to hear from you! 📧 Please contact: livingplanetindex@ioz.ac.uk
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Living Planet Database keeps growing! The time and date of entries are saved for each record so we can track the growth of the database over time! 🔗 Explore or download the data: www.livingplanetindex.org
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
World Wildlife Fund Canada’s Living Planet Report Canada (LPRC) 2025: Wildlife at Home reveals the most severe average decline in the size of monitored wildlife populations in Canada since WWF-Canada began reporting two decades. ago.wwf.ca/lprc2025/
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WWF's Living Planet Report Canada 2025 - WWF.CA
WWF's Living Planet Report Canada 2025 offers a window into Canada’s ecological health and the most recent trends on how wildlife is faring across the country.
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Living Planet Database contains thousands of population time series from monitored sites around the world. With nearly 40,000 populations of over 5,000 species, it is the largest database of its kind! 🔗 Explore or download the data: www.livingplanetindex.org
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