The toad, skylark and beetles such as the wormwood moonshine are among the species of special conservation concern in the UK that have fallen in number by 67% since 1970 overall, and by 12% between 2002 and 2013.
He said that suicide-bombings, the Palestinians' most devastating and demoralising weapon, had fallen in number from 60-plus in the first half of 2002 to 17 in the first half of 2003 and six so far this year, with none since mid-March.
And comparison of the earlier and the later atlas, in each case, showed that nearly a third of native British plants had significantly decreased in 40 years, more than half of native birds had declined in just two decades, and in a similar period nearly three-quarters of British butterflies had fallen in numbers.
Agricultural production has fallen in a number of major crop exporters this summer.
Over the past 20 years the Nikkei (an index of 225 stocks) has fallen, in round numbers, by 75%.
And now, while the adult prison population has fallen in the last six months, the number of children behind bars has risen again.
Over the past decade, the number of teens who perceive a great risk from being a regular marijuana user has fallen — in some cases to numbers well below 50percentt — across all three grades surveyed by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
According to the National Crime Records Bureau's statistical databases, the number of convictions has fallen in recent years even as the number of women filing complaints has increased.
Five times as many people are injured on Italian roads as on French ones and, although the number has fallen in recent years, road deaths in Italy are still far higher than in many other large European countries.A new highway code offers hope that Italians will improve their behaviour behind the wheel.
Though that number has fallen in the past few years, the third most populous city in the United States led the country with 500 murders in 2012 according to the FBI.
