Article 425PX Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN

Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN

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Jonathan Watts
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The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a 'silent killer' as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief

The world must thrash out a new deal for nature in the next two years or humanity could be the first species to document our own extinction, warns the United Nation's biodiversity chief.

Ahead of a key international conference to discuss the collapse of ecosystems, Cristiana PaETMca Palmer said people in all countries need to put pressure on their governments to draw up ambitious global targets by 2020 to protect the insects, birds, plants and mammals that are vital for global food production, clean water and carbon sequestration.

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