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'The sixth great extinction is happening', warns climate expert

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72% Informative

Primatologist Jane Goodall is on a speaking tour in Vienna , Austria .

The 90-year-old primatologist and conservationist is speaking about the danger to the environment.

Dr Goodall has studied and campaigned to protect the habitat of wild chimpanzees for decades .

She also wants to highlight the threat that deforestation poses to our climate.

'The sixth great extinction is happening now,' she says.

Dr Goodall ’s career has often been challenging, but she has refused to give up.

Her methods and her sense of closeness to the primates she has dedicated her life to have given her a unique perspective.

“Surely people want a future for their children? If they do, we have to get tougher about [environmental] legislation," she says.

VR Score

72

Informative language

68

Neutral language

42

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

39

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not offensive

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not hateful

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Time-value

short-lived

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1

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