UN Asks For Action On Nature Loss, Citing Poverty

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 9, September 2010

 

The session at UN headquarters co-incides with the final day of talks on the Millennium Development Goals, and the UN says the two issues are linked.

 

Delegates are to discuss why they have failed to meet a 2010 target for curbing loss of biodiversity.

 

Conservationists are calling for at least a 10-fold increase on spending. Read the full report here.

 

Source: by Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News, UK.

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