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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:03 PM
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Life's diversity 'being depleted'
20 March 2006

Virtually all indicators of the likely future for the diversity of life on Earth are heading in the wrong direction, a major new report says.

The Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is published as national delegates gather in Brazil under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

The Convention commits governments to slow the decline in the richness of living systems by 2010.

The GBO says "unprecedented efforts" will be needed to achieve this aim.

It sets out 15 indicators of progress towards the 2010 target, ranging from trends in the extent of wildlife habitats to the build-up of nutrients such as nitrogen which can harm aquatic life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4826262.stm


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