There is mounting evidence the world is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaurs. One million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction.
"We've already degraded 75 per cent of the Earth's surface and more than 60 per cent of the marine environment," the UN’s biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema told the BBC.
Corey Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders professor of global ecology at Flinders University, says if the current rate of extinction continues we could lose most species by 2200. The implication for human health and wellbeing is dire, but not inevitable.
