Boris Johnson: 'Nature is declining at a pace that is truly terrifying'

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Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity

From the tiniest of plants to the mightiest, most majestic megafauna, the natural life that so enriches our planet today is declining at a pace that is truly terrifying. Almost 70 per cent of the world's...

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