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Extinction: The Facts

We're buying as much ashalf a million tonnes produced in the Cerrado per year

We're buying as much as
half a million tonnes produced in the Cerrado per year

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We're buying as much as half a million tonnes
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produced in the Cerrado per year.
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6 seconds
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22
Timestamp in Movie
00:32:49
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.
The majority of this is used to make feed for chickens - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
The majority of this is used to make feed for chickens
Some supermarkets and some manufacturers are starting to shift, - Extinction: The Facts 00:18
Some supermarkets and some manufacturers are starting to shi...
Anteaters have to be able to move freely throughout its environment. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Anteaters have to be able to move freely throughout its envi...
This is important for males to find mates - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
This is important for males to find mates
If there are barriers to movement, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
If there are barriers to movement,
As the Cerrado is being cleared, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
As the Cerrado is being cleared,
And the surrounding areas become lethal territory. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
And the surrounding areas become lethal territory.
The land is being crossed by highways. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
The land is being crossed by highways.
Sometimes when a female giant anteater dies on the road, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Sometimes when a female giant anteater dies on the road,
But we have found roadkill decreases - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
But we have found roadkill decreases
The unprecedented impact we are having on the planet - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
The unprecedented impact we are having on the planet
Scientists believe that our destructive relationship with nature - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Scientists believe that our destructive relationship with na...
We've seen an increasing rate of pandemic emergence. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
We've seen an increasing rate of pandemic emergence.
We've had swine flu, SARS, Ebola, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
We've had swine flu, SARS, Ebola,
And what are the things going on there that could have caused it? - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
And what are the things going on there that could have cause...
And we've found we're behind every single pandemic - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
And we've found we're behind every single pandemic
Animals have lots of different viruses that circulate - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Animals have lots of different viruses that circulate
And so one of the most obvious ways that we're making it more likely - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
And so one of the most obvious ways that we're making i...
The wildlife trade is at unprecedented levels. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
The wildlife trade is at unprecedented levels.
We have huge markets with tens of thousands of live animals, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
We have huge markets with tens of thousands of live animals,