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Monitoring losses

The Living Planet Index, actually an average of three indexes, tracks populations of 1,686 species to provide measures of vertebrate status. Tropic species have been hardest hit. Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog (left) is categorized by the IUCN as "critically endangered." Credit: Treefrog: Brad Wilson; Chart: Living Planet Index, adapted by A. Nandy

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