UN report says climate change might be pushing more than a million species into extinction, calls for First Nations intervention

A new reports says humankind is forcing more than a million species to extinction.  (AP: Denis Farrell, file)

A new United Nations-backed report says that over exploitation of resources, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report said that unless humankind starts to act sustainably, the earth is on its way to losing 12 per cent of its wild tree species, more than 1,000 wild mammal species and almost 450 species of sharks and rays.