Rejected petition Demand Government declares an Ecological Emergency
Alarmed by David Attenborough's recent BBC documentary 'Extinction: The Facts'? Our living world, our web of life support, is dying. Demand our government urgently addresses this issue, declares an Ecological Emergency, and charts a credible path towards ecological recovery, at home and globally.
More details
1) Attenborough documentary https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn4n/extinction-the-facts
2) The Convention on Biological Diversity report states that "Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the pressures
driving this decline are intensifying. None of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets will be fully met"
https://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo5/publication/gbo-5-spm-en.pdf
3) WWF Living Planet Report states that 68% of wildlife has gone since 1970 https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-gb/
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