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Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

24 April 2018

One-eighth of the world’s 11,000 bird species are now threatened, and in most cases farming is the biggest threat thanks to our increasingly meat-rich diets
Cocoa pods

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

27 December 2017

Ever since we domesticated the cocoa tree over 3000 years ago, we have been breeding them to make tastier chocolate – but in the process we have made them vulnerable

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