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Extinction: The Facts

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00:14:20
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Jun 03, 2025
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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.
Poaching is still sort of like a war, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Poaching is still sort of like a war,
Every day, we lose between two or three rhinos in Africa. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Every day, we lose between two or three rhinos in Africa.
We're talking about millions of animals being snatched - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
We're talking about millions of animals being snatched
Illegal wildlife trafficking ranks fourth of transnational crimes - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Illegal wildlife trafficking ranks fourth of transnational c...
One of the drivers for increasing demand - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
One of the drivers for increasing demand
If you have money, if you have internet, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
If you have money, if you have internet,
It could be a status symbol - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
It could be a status symbol
But it's all made up. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
But it's all made up.
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,