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Extinction: The Facts

What we're doing is takingcustoms data, shipping data, and for the first time we...

What we're doing is taking
customs data, shipping data, and for the first time we connect
them all together and ask who is buying from the hot spots where we're really losing
biodiversity

Full Transcript

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What we're doing is taking customs data, shipping data,
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and for the first time we connect them all together and ask
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who is buying from the hot spots
00:00:10.024 --> 00:00:12.072
where we're really losing biodiversity.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:38
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.
We now have enough data to be able to identify the main drivers - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
We now have enough data to be able to identify the main driv...
Soy, cocoa, coffee, palm oil and beef. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Soy, cocoa, coffee, palm oil and beef.
Conversion of land for cattle - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
Conversion of land for cattle
Of the total mass of mammals on Earth, - Extinction: The Facts 00:14
Of the total mass of mammals on Earth,
Brazil has one of the world's largest cattle herds, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Brazil has one of the world's largest cattle herds,
About 12% of Brazil's beef exports comes to the EU, - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
About 12% of Brazil's beef exports comes to the EU,
The UK doesn't import much beef, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
The UK doesn't import much beef,
It's a very productive form of plant protein that's widely used. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
It's a very productive form of plant protein that'...
The majority goes into animal feed. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
The majority goes into animal feed.
Since 2006, efforts have been made to reduce deforestation for soy - Extinction: The Facts 00:13
Since 2006, efforts have been made to reduce deforestation f...
The Cerrado is very special - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
The Cerrado is very special
It's basically scrub grasslands, scrub forests. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
It's basically scrub grasslands, scrub forests.
Yet the Cerrado has many unique species. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
Yet the Cerrado has many unique species.
Giant anteaters have been around for millions of years, - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Giant anteaters have been around for millions of years,
They only have one pup at a time, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
They only have one pup at a time,
So the mothers carry their pups on their backs, - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
So the mothers carry their pups on their backs,
Over 50% has now been transformed into agricultural landscapes. - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Over 50% has now been transformed into agricultural landscap...
The greatest expansion of agriculture, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
The greatest expansion of agriculture,
And here we can see the exports of soy from this area - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
And here we can see the exports of soy from this area
But some of it is actually imported into the UK. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
But some of it is actually imported into the UK.