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Extinction: The Facts

Scientists have even linked ourdestructive relationship with nature to the emergenceof...

Scientists have even linked our
destructive relationship with nature to the emergence
of Covid-19

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Scientists have even linked our destructive relationship
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with nature to the emergence of Covid-19.
Duration
8 seconds
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21
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:25
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 are encroaching further and further every day - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
We are encroaching further and further every day
If we carry on like this, we will see more epidemics - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
If we carry on like this, we will see more epidemics
The decisions made as we rebuild our economies are critical. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
The decisions made as we rebuild our economies are critical.
Get it wrong and we will be in deeply dangerous territory. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Get it wrong and we will be in deeply dangerous territory.
Get it right and we still have the ability to pull back - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Get it right and we still have the ability to pull back
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...