The Living Planet Report is one of the most comprehensive reports on the health of our planet, climate and wildlife. This years report is the most sobering and disastrous yet. To put it bluntly we are very much on the brink, nature even more so. What we do now and over the next few years will decide whether we succeed or fail in turning things around. We seem to forget that everything we do to nature, we do unto ourselves. Released today, it shows the size of global wildlife populations have plummeted by 69% on average since 1970. Just let that sink in. Latin America and the Caribbean has seen an average decline of 94% in the size of its wildlife populations since 1970. The UK only has 53% of its historic biodiversity left, making it one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world countries in the world. What’s clear is that year on year, we carry on decimating the natural world at an exponential rate with no thought for the consequences. This shows has been a total lack of response, action and commitment to previous warnings. Nothing but empty promises, tokenistic actions and total lack of commitment to change. The hypocrisy is frightening. The alarm bells have been ringing for decades but as of today they have never been ringing more loudly and clearly, something has to give. This cannot be the moment we go back on promises and commitments. This cannot be the moment we continue with business as usual and these warnings fall on deaf ears. This has to be the moment Governments, corporations, industries, institutions wake up, take responsibility and act accordingly. Not forgetting the power and the voice we all have. As bleak and overwhelming as this all sounds and it is. I can also say the roadmap to recovery is lay out before us. We can turn things around. It’s not to late. The solutions, science and policy is all out there, at our finger tips. We just have to make the right choice and walk down the right path. The natural world, it’s plants, species & future generations need us now more than ever. If we’re still having this conversation in 5/10 years we’ve lost. Let’s fight to make sure that isn’t so.