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You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe's biodiversity crisis threatens all of humanity in numerous unseen or unrecognized ways, scientists say.

A massive United Nations report this week warned that nature is in trouble, estimated 1 million species are threatened with extinction if nothing is done and said the worldwide deterioration of nature is everybody's problem.

"Nature is essential for human existence and good quality of life," the report said.

Food, energy, medicine, water, protection from storms and floods and slowing climate change are some of t...