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Article: Some Conservationists Concerned that Wrong Land Is Protected.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2004
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Byline: Laurie Goering
Apr. 8--JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A decade ago, conservationists set an ambitious goal of protecting 10 percent of Earth's land in nature reserves within 10 years. To nearly everyone's surprise that goal has been more than met, with 11.5 percent of the world's land now in protected areas.
But some conservationists fear that the millions of acres protected are not the right ones. Despite the vast expansion of reserves, 20 percent of threatened animal species worldwide and about 12 percent of all animals have no part of their territory protected, according to a new analysis.
"These species are completely falling through ...