One in 10 UK wildlife species faces extinction, major report shows

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State of Nature reveals the destructive impact of intensive farming, urbanisation and climate change on plants, animals and habitats

More than one in 10 of the UK's wildlife speciesare threatened with extinction and the numbers of the nation's most endangered creatures have plummeted by two-thirds since 1970, according to a major report....

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