Nature is amazingly beautiful with its boundless forms and colours. We are also entirely dependent on it. All we drink, eat, breath and produce, has its origin from nature. We are part of it, without it we cannot exist.
"Endangered nature" exhibits the greatest threats against the world's biodiversity illustrated through specimens from our comprehensive scientific collections – including both well-known and never before exhibited objects. Meet lions, elephants and pangolins, species that risk getting extinct due to habitat loss or other factors influenced by human activities. And get a rare glimpse of species that are already gone forever, like the fascinating huias of New Zealand or the great auk that previously roamed the Norwegian coast. Today, these latter species may only be seen as relicts in natural history museums.
But although nature is under pressure, we have become much better at taking care of it. The exhibition also shows success stories in which animals at the brink of extinction have been saved through targeted conservation efforts. There is hope, and we can do more in order to take care of our precious nature.
Based on UN report
The exhibition is based the report on global biodiversity and its threats by the UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The greatest threats are, in order:
- Changes in land use
- Direct exploitation of organisms
- Climate change
- Pollution
- Invasive alien species
