Save our species

Sir David Attenborough explores how one million animal and plant species face extinction

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, ELAINE REILLY.

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NATUREExtinction: The Facts

Sunday, BBC1 HD, 8pm

The natural world’s biodiversity is disappearing at a rate never seen before in human history. All plants, animals and insects in the natural world are in decline, so much so that, according to a recent report by the United Nations, a shocking one million species now face extinction.

In order to highlight this global emergency, Sir David Attenborough is presenting an eye-opening new documentary called Extinction: The Facts, in which some of the world’s leading scientists explain what is happening to the natural world, how human activity drives extinction, and what we need to do next.