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Extinction: The Facts

But it's all made up

But it's all made up

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But it's all made up.
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00:15:21
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
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BBC Studios

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With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.
People claim these are cultures and traditions, - Extinction: The Facts 00:14
People claim these are cultures and traditions,
Today, the most trafficked animal in the world - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Today, the most trafficked animal in the world
Pangolins are nocturnal animals found throughout Asia and Africa. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Pangolins are nocturnal animals found throughout Asia and Af...
Each one can consume 70 million ants a year. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Each one can consume 70 million ants a year.
Pangolins are the only mammal covered in scales, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Pangolins are the only mammal covered in scales,
The massive demand in Asia for pangolin scales - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
The massive demand in Asia for pangolin scales
Traders claim that they have medicinal purposes, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Traders claim that they have medicinal purposes,
The numbers of African pangolin scales that have been intercepted - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
The numbers of African pangolin scales that have been interc...
Last year, 2019, it was just over 100 tonnes of scales. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Last year, 2019, it was just over 100 tonnes of scales.
That's 175,000 pangolins - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
That's 175,000 pangolins
We work closely with law enforcement officials. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
We work closely with law enforcement officials.
This little pangolin came in off the trade, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
This little pangolin came in off the trade,
This pangolin's still got the little white tips at the end of each scale - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
This pangolin's still got the little white tips at the ...
I have seen video footage of them being boiled alive. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
I have seen video footage of them being boiled alive.
It's extremely distressing to see how these animals are killed. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
It's extremely distressing to see how these animals are...
Last year, when Covid-19 first emerged, - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Last year, when Covid-19 first emerged,
And everybody hoped that this would cut down the trade straight away, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
And everybody hoped that this would cut down the trade strai...
The trade is highly profitable and it's unlikely to stop. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
The trade is highly profitable and it's unlikely to sto...
There are four Asian pangolin species and four African. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
There are four Asian pangolin species and four African.
And all eight species are threatened with extinction. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
And all eight species are threatened with extinction.