UK is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries

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The UK’s industrial history has destroyed so much of the surrounding nature that new research warns an ‘ecological recession’ is imminent.

Analysis by the Natural History Museum shows there’s only 53 percent of biodiversity left, which is well below the global average and significantly lower than the 90 percent threshold believed to be the safe point to prevent the world from tipping into an “ecological recession”.

Sky’s Lisa Dowd reports.

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In This Story: Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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