World 'needs new wildlife body' (BBC)

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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

The world needs a new global organisation dedicated to stemming the loss of plant and animal species.

That is the argument put forward by a group of eminent academics in this week's edition of the journal Nature.

They call for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity (IPB) to parallel the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Recent studies show continuing loss of biodiversity, with the hippo and polar bear just added to the danger list.

The 2006 Red List of Threatened Species showed more than 16,000 plants and animals sliding towards their demise, including a third of amphibian species and a quarter of mammals.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196008.stm

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1. An important article and idea...

however, did anyone else upon reading the thread title have a bizarre mental picture of oh let's say... a deer's body with the Earth stuck on where the head should be? :rofl:

Ok, so maybe it was just me.

Good article.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. Its just going to get worse

But the powers to be, won't understand that until its too late.