Why Lost Paradises as a name for our website ?  We are observing the degradation of nature and climate everywhere in the world and for years. We displayed our photo-album on this website to display the beauty of our endangered planet. Later, we discovered a poem by John Milton called Paradise Lost. Its subject is the fall of Man when God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

Today many species are disappearing or are endangered, pollution is increasing, some pesticids or some chemical molecules make some of us sick. It seems obvious than human kind is also endangered if we continue to burn very quickly our limited ressources (water, oil, gas..) and the effects of climate change will affect most of the population in the next years. And Mother Nature will win at the end, even without the human specie.

WWF published its Living Planet Report 2020 Extract :

""AN SOS FOR NATURE
The evidence is unequivocal – nature is being changed and
destroyed by us at a rate unprecedented in history. The 2020 global Living Planet Index shows an average 68% fall in
populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. In this chapter we also look at life in the soil beneath our feet, insects, “the little things that run the world”, and plants, all of which provide fundamental support for life on Earth. From the biggest to the smallest living things on our planet, monitoring shows us that nature is in serious decline. " Since the industrial revolution, human activities have increasingly
destroyed and degraded forests, grasslands, wetlands and other important ecosystems, threatening human well-being. Seventy-five per cent of the Earth’s ice-free land surface has already been significantly altered, most of the oceans are polluted, and more than 85% of the area of wetlands has been lost. This destruction of ecosystems has led to 1 million species (500,000 animals and plants and 500,000 insects) being threatened with extinction over the coming decades to centuries, although many of these extinctions are preventable if we conserve and restore nature"

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WWF published its Living Planet Report 2022 Extract :

"Today we face the double, interlinked emergencies of human-induced climate change and the loss of biodiversity, threatening the well-being of current and future generations. As our future is critically dependent on biodiversity and a stable climate, it is essential that we understand how nature’s decline and climate change are connected."

Next report will be available in 2026