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Posted Mon Jan 18 2010: from BBC (UK):
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Biodiversity nears 'point of no return' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1263830560
Much greater concerted effort is needed to stop the plunder of our ecosystems.... Overfishing has reduced blue fin tuna numbers to 18 percent of what they were in the mid-1970s.
The burning of Indonesia's peat lands and forests for palm oil plantations generates 1.8bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, and demand is predicted to double by 2020 compared to 2000.
More than seven million hectares are lost worldwide to deforestation every single year.
The restoration of our ecosystems must be seen as a sensible and cost-effective investment in this planet's economic survival and growth.
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Very Scary Tags: ecosystem interrelationships, overfishing, species restoration
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Come on -- how many species do we really need, anyway?
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