Earth on ‘brink of ANNIHILATION’: Humans have just 30 years to SAVE Earth from extinction

“Every 15 minutes an elephant is killed illegally for its ivory in Africa, that is the scale of destruction we are seeing.

“In Germany, for example 75 percent of flying insects were lost in 25 years. There were approximately 200,000 orang-utans approximately 50 years ago and we have lost half that number in the last decade alone.

“If the orang-utan population continues to decline at the same rate, there will be no orang-utans left in the wild in ten years.”

He believes if we continue with the destruction of species and habitats, what we are doing is destroying Earth’s capabilities to maintain us.

However he thinks there is still time to avert ecological catastrophe if “we give people the tools to act”.

Professor Ceballos said: “The window for action is very small and it is closing, but there is still time.”