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Extinction: The Facts

Get it right and we stillhave the ability to pull back and rein in the collapseof...

Get it right and we still
have the ability to pull back and rein in the collapse
of biodiversity

Full Transcript

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Get it right and we still have the ability to pull back
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and rein in the collapse of biodiversity.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:59
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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.
We have a moment when we can change our world - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
We have a moment when we can change our world
Over the course of my life, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Over the course of my life,
Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been.
Many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever.
We're facing a crisis, and one that has consequences for us all. - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
We're facing a crisis, and one that has consequences fo...
It threatens our ability to feed ourselves, to control our climate. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
It threatens our ability to feed ourselves, to control our c...
It even puts us at greater risk of pandemic diseases - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
It even puts us at greater risk of pandemic diseases
It's never been more important for us to understand the effects - Extinction: The Facts 00:13
It's never been more important for us to understand the...
Only if we do that - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Only if we do that
Last year, the United Nations asked over 500 scientists - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
Last year, the United Nations asked over 500 scientists
This is the first time there's been a global assessment - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
This is the first time there's been a global assessment
We're losing biodiversity at a rate - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
We're losing biodiversity at a rate
All groups in the natural world are in decline, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
All groups in the natural world are in decline,
Since 1970, vertebrate animals - things like birds, mammals, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
Since 1970, vertebrate animals - things like birds, mammals,
Large mammals have on average disappeared from three quarters - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Large mammals have on average disappeared from three quarter...
What's different is that it's happening simultaneously - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
What's different is that it's happening simultaneo...
It's happening not at one place and not with one group of organisms, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
It's happening not at one place and not with one group ...
It means that one million species - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
It means that one million species
500,000 plants and animals and 500,000 insects. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
500,000 plants and animals and 500,000 insects.
Things come, they grow, their populations get huge - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Things come, they grow, their populations get huge