Faunalytics Index – March 2017

This month’s Faunalytics Index provides facts about wildlife conservation and trafficking, vegan diets and the perception of vegans, organic farming, and more.

All of these statistics come from items that we’ve published on the site recently; follow the links to read the articles and dive deeper into the issues.

50%	Approximate percentage of the estimated 3,200-4,000 wild tigers in the world that live in India
2x	Factor by which ivory trafficking has increased worldwide since 2007
78%	Percentage of people who get their companion dogs from somewhere other than a shelter
5-8 million	Number of potential lives that could be saved by 2050 through a shift to plant-based diets
3%, 6%	Respective percentages of U.S. adults from a recent survey who identify as strict vegans, or as “mostly vegetarian or vegan”
100%	Percentage of non-vegans from a recent survey who reported having conflict with vegans, even if their overall interactions with them were positive
14	Number of circumpolar protected Large Marine Ecosystems that contain polar bear populations, and could make valuable contributions to conservation
2.1 million	The approximate number of organic egg-laying hens in the Netherlands in 2011, up sharly from 150,000 in 2001
6-8^oC	Number of degrees that the brain temperature of cows needs to be raised to “induce insensibility” for reversible microwave stunning