Sunday Interview. "We must stop destroying biodiversity": Ecologist Franck Courchamp's call

Your new comic book, The Legacy of the Dodo *, explains the threat that climate change and biodiversity loss pose to the human species. You begin by discussing the current state of global biodiversity. What is it?

"Not very glorious! We are not yet in the sixth mass extinction. Because a mass extinction is the loss of more than 75% of living species: that's what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. On the other hand, we are on a worse trajectory than the last five extinctions . It's going faster, more intensely. But we can still do things."

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