Report: Governments Have Failed to Protect Biodiversity

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The world's governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10092320.stm
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Global Biodiversity Outlook 2010

Natural systems that support economies, lives and livelihoods across the planet are at risk of rapid degradation and collapse unless there is swift, radical and creative action to conserve and sustainably use the variety of life on Earth. This is one principal conclusion of a major new assessment of the current state of biodiversity and the implications of its continued loss for human well-being.
http://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo3/doc/GBO3-final-en.pdf
The third edition of the UN Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3), produced by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), confirms that the world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

Economic report into biodiversity crisis

Species losses around the world could really cost us the Earth with food shortages, floods and expensive clean up costs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/biodiversity-un-report

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