British wildlife is at “ crisis ” point with over 120 species now at risk of extinction due to intensive farming , the State of Nature 2016 report will warn . The National Trust ’s Peter Nixon says the crisis is not the conservation but “ the industrialisation of agriculture driven by subsidies . ” Those hardest hit are butterflies , species such as the skylark and wild bees of which 25 species are now extinct in the UK . wildlife was published three years ago. As we have previously noted , the fall in the numbers of butterflies , for example , will have " major implications for biodiversity , agricultural biosecurity , global warming and human health . "
British wildlife is at “ crisis ” point with over 120 species now at risk of extinction due to intensive farming , the State of Nature 2016 report will warn . The National Trust ’s Peter Nixon says the crisis is not the conservation but “ the industrialisation of agriculture driven by subsidies . ” Those hardest hit are butterflies , species such as the skylark and wild bees of which 25 species are now extinct in the UK . As we have previously noted , the fall in the numbers of butterflies , for example , will have " major implications for biodiversity , agricultural biosecurity , global warming and human health . "