The global scenario on preserving biological diversity remains dismal. The latest findings of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) show that nations, including India, all signatories to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), are unlikely to achieve the target set for them by 2010 to protect their biodiversity. Countries the worldover clearly aren't concerned on this crucial issue despite predictions that as many as 150 million people globally may become environmental refugees by 2050. CBD required nations to achieve a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level by a certain date but they don't seem to be moving at the required pace. The CBD target has been endorsed by world summit on sustainable development and UN's General Assembly and are also listed as a new target under the Millennium Development Goals(MDG). The findings of the report, 2010 and beyond: Rising to the biodiversity challenge. has taken living planet index (LPI) and ecological footprints as two indicators. These have also been adopted by the CBD. While the LPI uses population trends in species around the globe to assess the state of global biodiversity, ecological footprint measures human demands on the biosphere to produce resources and absorb carbon-di-oxide. Findings show that wild species and natural ecosystems are under pressure to a greater or lesser degree across all biomes and regions. The dependency of human population on ecosystem has led to natural habitat either being lost, altered or fragmented for use as cultivable land, industrial or urban use. River systems and marine ecosystems are also being degraded. "Over-exploitation of wild species populations is the result of harvesting or killing animals or plants, for food, materials or medicine, over and above the reproductive capacity of the population to replace itself," the report warns that governments are not on track to meet the 2010 target.