every two yea rs assesses more than 20,000 creatures all around the world, species in all groups of animals on every continent are being lost. what we have seen is a wholesale destruction of some of our most important natural assets in the space of one human lifetime, 50 years. and this is a trend only increasing and accelerating and that's why we have to stop now and start to address it. intensive agriculture is one of the key drivers. these are huge banana plantations in ghana and its a monoculture. wildlife is being driven out, so people around the world can eat the fruit whenever they like. it's the same story elsewhere. in the amazon, a football pitch of rainforest is lost every minute, cleared as grazing for beef cattle and to plant soy which goes into animal feed.