UN News Service
A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without radical action, UN biodiversity experts say.
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| The Chatham penguin, once endemic to the Chatham Islands, off New Zealand. Its bones indicate it likely became extinct shortly after Polynesians arrived about 450 years ago. Image by Sean Murtha. RELATED: |
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Man's assault on his fellow creatures has been ongoing for perhaps millennia. Now that we can boast more than 7.5 billion on Earth, and counting, that assault is only exploding, exponentially. We are living in a greatly diminishing world. Too bad more do not seem to care.
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