How biodiversity loss is threatening sources of life-saving medicine

Name: How biodiversity loss is threatening sources of life-saving medicine
Uploaded: 2023-11-08T16:27:26Z
Duration: 1 min 45 s
Description: Plants are a key source of traditional and modern medicines. 40% of pharmaceutical drugs derive from nature. Including Taxol, an anti-cancer agent from yew trees and aspirin, which uses a compound originally extracted from the bark of willow.