AR-News: (U.K.) "Farming 'killing Europe's birds'"

[Mary Finelli]

Forwarded message:

This is sobering ...

BBC 1/19/04:

"Farming 'killing Europe's birds'"

"Modern farming in Europe  has reduced the numbers of 24
common bird species by a third in a quarter of a century, a
report by European ornithologists says. The authors include
staff of the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,
and of BirdLife International. They say the declines were
steepest in countries in north-west Europe, in the regions
of most intensive agriculture. They say the 10 countries due
to join the European Union on 1 May must learn from the
example of its older members."

Text:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3403505.stm

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