"Nature Loss: Report To Show Scale Of 'Silent Crisis'"

"The world's most comprehensive, and damning, report on the state of nature will be released on Monday in Paris.

The UN's Global Assessment will highlight the distressing impact that humanity is having on the natural world.

It will probably state that species are being lost at the fastest ever rate, mainly driven by the changing use of land.

Rapid action is needed at the political level to avoid an ecological disaster.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has spent the last three years working on the 1,800-page assessment. "

Matt McGrath reports for BBC News May 6, 2019.

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