What is Extinction: The Facts all about?

The growth of humanity has wiped out 60% of the world’s wildlife populations in the past four decades according to the World Wildlife Fund, while a 2019 United Nation report predicts that one in eight of Earth’s plant and animal species are now at risk of vanishing – many within the next ten or 20 years.

Clearly the world is at a stark turning point and, as Attenborough says, “what happens next is up to every one of us”.

We can choose whether we want to carry on mindlessly consuming and developing as the natural world around us shrinks beyond all recognition. Or we can make a conscious decision to step in and take action that will help to save hundreds of thousands of animals in grave danger of disappearing forever.

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