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Extinction: The Facts

We've seen this huge increasein the use of fur trims for winter jackets

We've seen this huge increase
in the use of fur trims for winter jackets

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We've seen this huge increase in the use
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of fur trims for winter jackets.
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5 seconds
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14
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:08
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
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documentary
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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.
And that means hundreds of thousands of animals are bred - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
And that means hundreds of thousands of animals are bred
You have large densities of animals - Extinction: The Facts 00:15
You have large densities of animals
..is that we are encroaching further and further every day - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
..is that we are encroaching further and further every day
31% of all emerging diseases have originated - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
31% of all emerging diseases have originated
Forests around the world, where there's a lot of biodiversity, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
Forests around the world, where there's a lot of biodiv...
The minute we build a road in there, - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
The minute we build a road in there,
The first people into those logging camps go out and hunt bushmeat - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
The first people into those logging camps go out and hunt bu...
Viruses move from wildlife into livestock, into people. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Viruses move from wildlife into livestock, into people.
At every step of the process, we're bringing people closer in contact - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
At every step of the process, we're bringing people clo...
It's easy to imagine that we're so far away - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
It's easy to imagine that we're so far away
Our consumption of beef drives this, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Our consumption of beef drives this,
My research is showing that when humans convert habitat, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
My research is showing that when humans convert habitat,
It's not all species that are likely to make us sick. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
It's not all species that are likely to make us sick.
Often the best reservoirs for the pathogens that can jump to humans - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Often the best reservoirs for the pathogens that can jump to...
When we have intact natural systems with high biodiversity, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
When we have intact natural systems with high biodiversity,
But when humans destroy habitat, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
But when humans destroy habitat,
Which means the smaller bodied species are the big winners. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
Which means the smaller bodied species are the big winners.
They live at super high density and are the ones far more likely - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
They live at super high density and are the ones far more li...
So we've been saying for 20-plus years that this exploitation - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
So we've been saying for 20-plus years that this exploi...
But what we didn't think was it was going to happen so quickly - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
But what we didn't think was it was going to happen so ...