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Extinction: The Facts

We've learnt that many, many times, and yet we carry onmaking the same mistake

We've learnt that many, many times, and yet we carry on
making the same mistake

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We've learnt that many, many times,
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and yet we carry on making the same mistake.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:49
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BBC Studios

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Movie Summary

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.
Even in the UK, we've converted many areas that have been - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Even in the UK, we've converted many areas that have be...
The impacts of biodiversity loss - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
The impacts of biodiversity loss
It's never been more critical for us to understand - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
It's never been more critical for us to understand
Scientists have identified the key ways in which we humans - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Scientists have identified the key ways in which we humans
There are many ways to remove pieces of the puzzle. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
There are many ways to remove pieces of the puzzle.
The most obvious way is to kill something, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
The most obvious way is to kill something,
Over the last 20 years, the illegal wildlife trade has become - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Over the last 20 years, the illegal wildlife trade has becom...
One of the biggest ever hauls, worth more than £4 million... - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
One of the biggest ever hauls, worth more than £4 million......
..was found in a shipping container. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
..was found in a shipping container.
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...