What is happening?
In the UK alone, there are about 37,000 different species of animals and 65,000 different species have completely disappeared.
Today, about 15% of all British wildlife is sill at risk, especially animals such as the otter and the brown hare. Unless we do something to help,thing will only get worse.
The main reason why some types of plants and animals are becoming endangered species is that their habitats are lost or have changed. Animals like moths, birds and bats have lost their homes as people have cut down the hedgerows they live in. Also, a lot of ponds are no longer suitable for the animals and plants to live in because they are polluted, or people have filled them in.