In the last 30 years, the rate of bird extinction has been accelerating, with 21 species disappearing and 190 currently classified as critically endangered. Nicola Stanbridge met the cartoonist Ralph Steadman who is one of a selection of artists, musicians and poets who have been enrolled to highlight the problem in the Ghosts of Gone Birds exhibition.

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