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Extinction: The Facts

Studies suggest that extinctionis now happening 100 times faster than the natural...

Studies suggest that extinction
is now happening 100 times faster than the natural evolutionary rate, and it's accelerating

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Studies suggest that extinction is now happening 100 times faster
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than the natural evolutionary rate,
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and it's accelerating.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:34
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.
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.
I've seen these beautiful rhinos - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
I've seen these beautiful rhinos
And I think they feel it, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
And I think they feel it,
Unless science saves them, - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Unless science saves them,
And their plight awaits one million more species. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
And their plight awaits one million more species.
Once we lose these species, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
Once we lose these species,
Unique animals with complex and varied lives disappearing - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Unique animals with complex and varied lives disappearing
But this is about more than losing the wonders of nature. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
But this is about more than losing the wonders of nature.
The consequences of these losses for us as a species - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
The consequences of these losses for us as a species
What we now know about the natural world is that - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
What we now know about the natural world is that
From a single pond to a whole tropical rainforest. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
From a single pond to a whole tropical rainforest.
All of biodiversity is interlocked on a global scale - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
All of biodiversity is interlocked on a global scale
We tend to think that we're somehow outside of that system, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
We tend to think that we're somehow outside of that sys...
The problem is we're now changing those ecological systems - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
The problem is we're now changing those ecological syst...