A MILLION species face extinction, including bees, hedgehogs and wildcats, a UN-backed report warns today (MON).

Activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) said the dossier was “both shaming and shocking.”

The 1,800-page scientific study by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has taken three years to compile.

It draws on thousands of pieces of evidence and warns of species extinctions, wildlife declines, habitat loss and damage to natural services.

XR said the report shows how “nature is collapsing because of how we live” and that “humanity is engaged in a mass genocide of other species with whom we share our home.”

Dr Alison Green, an XR spokeswoman and director of Scientists Warning said the report is “the most damning of its kind and reveals our consistent and extensive failures to address the accelerating loss of biodiversity.

“The failures to make progress show that it is our collective duty now to reject complacent and inadequate responses and to rebel.

“The future of all life is at stake.”

Lorna Greenwood, spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said:

“It’s time to help nature heal. Because of the colossal shift in public attitudes within the last fortnight, it is now becoming politically realistic to rethink how we produce food and look after nature.

“We should not be seeking just to protect what is left but also to restore our natural world to what it once was.

“It may mean hard choices but the rewards are enormous.

“Within our lifetime we could see nature restored and our children’s future secured.

“The alternative is not an option. We have no choice but to rebel until our world is healed.”