Scientists are warning we are losing our wildlife at an alarming rate.

The stark warning comes in a report published by a coalition of leading conservation and research organisations. They’ve compiled a stock take of our native species which has shown sixty per cent of species have declined over recent decades.

So what’s the situation in the North East?

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