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Around two-thirds of the world's land-based species of plants and animals live in ancient forests. That's hundreds of thousands of different plants and animals, and literally millions of insects. Millions of people depend on forests for their survival.

In the UK we are working to change the UK market for timber and paper, through exposing examples of the trade in timber products from illegal and destructive logging in ancient forest areas.

Sea Life

Rising temperatures are causing more droughts, floods and storms and causing sea levels to rise. Unlesswe act now, climate change will put the lives and homes of millions at risk and could condemn one third of all species to extinction by the middle of this century. For all of us, climate change could threaten the way we live.

Climate change is caused by our dependence on dirty fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas that we use to run our cars and power industry and our homes. When burned these fossil fuels emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases, which are causing the earth temperature to rise.

Fishing does not only threaten the fish species we target for food. Other species -such as marine mammals and seabirds- are caught incidentally in fishing gear and killed. Moreover, the fishing practicesare are destructive . Bottom trawling, for example, is a destructive way of 'strip mining' the ocean surface, harvesting the species that live there. It can destroy entire habitats found on the ocean floor.

The impacts are felt throughout the marine ecosystems. Scientists are already warning that the oceans will suffer profound changes as a result of overfishing and destructive fishing practices. Most fishing gear is not selective. This means that as well as the 'target' species of fish it catches, any number of 'non-target' species may also be hauled in.

This 'incidental' catch of other species is referred to as 'bycatch'. Globally, it is estimated that almost a quarter of what is caught is merely killed and discarded.Bycatch is not limited to unwanted fish species. All types of marine life including whales, dolphins, porpoises, fur seals, albatrosses and turtles are killed as bycatch.