麻豆传媒高清版 Professor features in Documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough
Last year a UN report revealed that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. A new BBC programme,聽Extinction: The Facts,聽goes聽beyond the emotional to investigate what biodiversity loss and extinction mean - not just for the planet but for us as a species.聽
Julia Jones,聽Professor of Conservation Science at the聽School of Natural Sciences, featured聽among some of the world鈥檚 leading scientists in this programme presented by Sir David Attenborough.聽
The programme reveals how this crisis has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, reducing our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases. It explores what is happening to the natural world - how human activity drives extinction and why we haven鈥檛 acted sooner to stem these losses. With the world at a critical turning point Extinction: The Facts asks what governments, industries and we as individuals can now do to change our course.聽
Professor聽Julia Jones聽said:聽
鈥淚 was delighted to be a small part of聽Extinction: The facts. The programme makers did a brilliant job of explaining just how bad things are for our planet鈥檚 biodiversity, why聽this matters聽to each and every one of us, and what needs to change. The programme beautifully explains how interlinked our natural world is and that we are part of that system.聽聽
鈥淭his is a hugely important and surprisingly radical programme聽which聽makes us confront difficult realities: that biodiversity loss around the world is linked to our own over-consumption. It illustrates perfectly that conservation science is an interdisciplinary topic requiring an understanding of zoology and ecology but also incorporating understanding of economics, policy and law.聽
鈥淚 would encourage all our students and prospective students to watch the聽programme. It is the perfect introduction to the聽conservation courses聽we teach here at Bangor.鈥澛
Sir David Attenborough received one of 麻豆传媒高清版's first聽Honorary Degrees聽in June 2009 to mark the University's 125th anniversary.聽Sir David's father studied at Coleg Normal in Bangor, and the family spent many family holidays in the area.聽
Extinction: The Facts, a one-hour documentary for BBC One, was broadcasted on Sunday 13 September, at 8pm.聽
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