Seventy thousand species. 🦊🐮🦋🐞🦔🌻

Seventy thousand species. 🦊🐮🦋🐞🦔🌻

That’s the best guess for the tally of life, including plants, animals and fungi, found in Britain and Ireland.

And it’s the target of one of biology's most ambitious projects - scientists want to map the DNA of every single one of these organisms.