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Old 2nd-June-2008, 10:03 AM
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Default Progress at UN biodiversity forum

Nearly 200 countries have agreed on measures to protect the world's most threatened wildlife.

At a Bonn conference they pledged to set up a deep-sea nature reserve and increase by tens of millions of hectares the area of land protected.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Progress at UN biodiversity forum
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Old 3rd-June-2008, 09:22 AM
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I hope they're going to protect the less photogenic species as well as the ones that look nice on the cover of magazines.
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