The head of the Environment Agency in the UK Sir James Bevan, has said that the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to human survival.
A report by the agency has found that 41 per cent of native flora and fauna species have decreased in abundance since 1970, with 15 percent facing extinction.
He said: "the biodiversity crisis won't just kill the plants and the animals, it will kill us too. That’s because nature is indivisible and interdependent, nature provides us with a host of things we depend upon, such as clean water, clean air and food.”
