Lord (Robert) May (President of the
Royal Society),
Prof Peter Crane (Director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) +
Professor Georgina Mace, (Director of science at the
Zoological Society of London) have issued an
unambiguous warning that the world faces a 6th mass extinction and that humanity must act now in order to
generate, synthesise + present the data which will be needed if we are to balance the "
fundamental tension between intergenerational equity and the humanitarian imperative of equality here and now."