Leicester have removed the iconic Tiger from their club logo, to raise awareness on World Wildlife Day. The club are also supporting the #WorldWithoutNature campaign, which highlights the loss of biodiversity throughout the natural world.
Leicester Tigers are working in partnership with the World Wildlife Foundation, to present the ongoing damage to the environment, and how to help for a better future.
The simplistic design is clearly missing the tiger, and will represent the natural world before too long if action is not taken. The political world is aware of the global climate crisis, yet more action needs to be done in order to have the natural world thriving once again.
Staggeringly, an approximated one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. This is at an all-time high, due to the deforestation of the natural world, and the impact of human industry.
Additional facts to consider on World Wildlife Day.
Nature captures 60% of carbon emissions each year
Every minute, we lose forest areas the size of 27 football fields
25% of our medicines come from rainforests
There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050
The population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have seen an average drop of 68% since 1970
75% of land has been significantly altered by human activities
More than 75% of the leading global food crops rely on pollination by insects and other animals – and we’re losing many of these essential species at an alarming rate
35% of global fish stocks have been overfished to unsustainable levels
Half of all coral reefs have been lost since 1980
We could lose as much as 90% of the world’s coral reefs by the end of the century