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    Wait, Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? (Atlantic)

    Wait, Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? (Atlantic)

    Since Monday, news networks and social media have been abuzz with the claim that, as The Guardian among others tweeted, “humanity has wiped out 60 percent of animals since 1970”—a stark and staggering figure based on the latest iteration of the WWF’s Living Planet report.

    But that isn’t really what the report showed.

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