Conservation call

LONDON: British broadcaster David Attenborough yesterday led a campaign by conservation groups for the world to invest $ 500 billion ( about R8 trillion) a year to halt the destruction of nature, saying the future of the planet was in “grave jeopardy”.

Attenborough, whose new film A Life on Our Planet documents the dangers of climate change and the extinction of species, made his statement as the UN convened a one- day summit aimed at galvanising action to protect wildlife.