Urge your government to address population

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Hi John

You may have heard the grim news about WWF's latest _Living Planet Report
[3]_, which shows that humanity has reduced vertebrate wildlife populations
by an average of 68% since 1970. If you're in the UK, you may have also
seen our Patron Sir David Attenborough's equally devastating new
documentary, _Extinction: The Facts_ [4], which premiered on BBC One last
Sunday. And today marked the release of the fifth UN Global Biodiversity
Outlook [5] report, which confirms that not a single one of the 20 Aichi
biodiversity targets have been met, with many threats worsening instead of
improving.

The evidence is clear: the sixth mass extinction is still accelerating and
our increasing numbers are one of the main drivers. Heads of State are due
to meet on 30 September to discuss how to boost action on biodiversity to
help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we highlighted in
our recent report [6] on population and the SDGs, we are in fact moving
backwards on many of the progress indicators, in large part because of
continued rapid human population growth. To turn the tide, it is crucial
that empowering, choice-based population solutions are included in global
conservation efforts.

Politicians have failed to address our extinction crisis for decades, and
we can't afford to waste more time with fine speeches and empty promises.
Please urge your government to discuss population at the upcoming Summit on
Biodiversity.

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Thank you for taking action for biodiversity!

Kind regards,

Alistair Currie
Head of Campaigns and Communications
Population Matters

P.s.: If you have already written to your government about the Post-2020
Biodiversity Framework via our previous action, please also take this new
action which specifically refers to the upcoming Biodiversity Summit.

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