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Article: International Biodiversity Conference calls for fight against species loss
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 24, 2005
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International Biodiversity Conference calls for fight against
species loss
PARIS, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Some 1,200 experts gathering in Paris
on the first day of a UN International conference on biodiversity
launched Monday an appeal to governments for fight against species
loss.
"Biodiversity is being destroyed irreversibly by human
activities," according to the proposal published by the director of
the scientific committee Michel Loreau.
"The rate at which humans are altering the environment, the extent
of those alterations and their consequences for the distribution and
abundance of species, ecosystems and genetic variability are
unprecedented in human history," it said.
According to ...