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Extinction: The Facts

Last year, the United Nationsasked over 500 scientists to investigate the current stateof...

Last year, the United Nations
asked over 500 scientists to investigate the current state
of the natural world

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Last year, the United Nations asked over 500 scientists
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to investigate the current state of the natural world.
Duration
10 seconds
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22
Timestamp in Movie
00:03:29
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.
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
So when you look at previous groups in the fossil records, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
So when you look at previous groups in the fossil records,
Since 1500, 570 plant species - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Since 1500, 570 plant species
Studies suggest that extinction is now happening 100 times faster - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Studies suggest that extinction is now happening 100 times f...
Because you hadn't pulled all that data together, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Because you hadn't pulled all that data together,
Many people think of extinction - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
Many people think of extinction
I am caretaker of the northern white rhinos. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
I am caretaker of the northern white rhinos.
This is Najin, the mother, who is 30 years old. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
This is Najin, the mother, who is 30 years old.
She's a little bit unpredictable - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
She's a little bit unpredictable
Northern white rhinos were once found in their thousands - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Northern white rhinos were once found in their thousands
By 1990, just seven known individuals survived. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
By 1990, just seven known individuals survived.