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Living Planet report shows planet's resources are being used at 1.5 times the rate nature can replace them. The Earth's population is using the equivalent of 1.5 planets' worth of natural resources, but the long-term decline of animal life appears to have been halted, a WWF report shows. Humans are consuming the Earth's resources faster than the planet can sustain, according to a report by WWF. (Photograph by: Handout, AFP/Getty Images)The latest Living Planet report, published today by the conservation group, also reveals the extent to which modern Western lifestyles are plundering natural resources from the tropics at record levels.