These facts relate to the Dispatches film, Conservation's Dirty Secrets
- Globally, the conservation movement raises and spends more than £3 billion a year.
- Coral reefs provide a home for more than a quarter of all marine life. Yet, globally, 20% have already been destroyed. It's estimated that by the middle of the century, half will have disappeared.
- Oceans cover 71% of the world's surface. Yet just 1% are protected zones - compared to 13% on land.
- Threatened large mammals were over 500 times more likely to be the subject of scientific research than threatened amphibians.
- By the middle of this century it's thought as many as 2 and a half million species may be extinct.
