We are losing the range and variety of life on Earth - biodiversity.

We depend on biodiversity for food and materials, clean water and air. But our natural world is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The world's richest companies take
more than their fair share - and governments don't do enough to protect our world.

Disappearing countryside

Biodiversity is all around us - in our gardens, parks, rivers, fields - playing a big part in our quality of life.

But we're:

• Burying wildlife under new houses, roads, ports and airports.
  
  
• Ripping out wildlife-rich hedgerows to make bigger fields.
  
  

Hidden threats

It's easy to see how biodiversity is lost when habitats are bulldozed. There are other less obvious threats:

Intensive agriculture

Global trade rules and supermarkets force farmers to find ways to produce bigger harvests at the lowest cost.

Genetically modified crops

Some GM crops resist the herbicides that kill all other plants in a field - yet those so-called weeds often provide food for insects and birds.