WWF report: Mass wildlife loss caused by human consumption

[Blessthekids]

This was pretty depressing and paints a very bleak picture especially alongside the Chinese government's decision to ease ban on rhino horn and tiger bone trade and a Brazilian President elect who wants to plunder the Amazon rain forest.

I am interested to know if people have ideas to try and improve this situation. What as individuals can we do?

I have contacted WWF to ask whether they have ideas on who to send letters to within the Chinese government, a bit like an Amnesty letter writing campaign. I did venture onto twitter but it seems like many twitter users think the way to go is to post racist remarks about Chinese people. After all the abuse of animals and wildlife happens no where else in the world. I guess I want to try and be constructive going forward rather than finding people to blame. I am unsure whether its all too late now but I would like to at least try.

Any ideas appreciated?

what was? do you have a link?

Here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46028862

Stop eating meat? It has a terrible impact on the environment and many local habitats are destroyed.

Yep, have already started doing that. As a family we have given up red meat and now cutting back on chicken and seafood plus dairy - partly due to the need to save money and be healthy but now have added motivation of trying to help the planet!

I think I will also write to my MP about packaging, I recycle and its obvious that everything comes in way too much packaging.

Seeing as it's a WWF report, have you looked over their website? They have some ideas. www.wwf.org.uk/
I was a member for years actually, might look again, thanks for the prompt.

General advice is reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order.