AR-News: (Switzerland) Nations pledge to stop extinctions

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Environment officials from 100 countries have wrapped up an international 
conference in Malaysia with a pledge to prevent the loss of animal and plant 
species.

Delegates to the United Nations-backed conference on biodiversity signed a 
joint declaration stating their intention to preserve ecosystems threatened by 
human activity.
UN officials say at least 60,000 species of animals and plants die out each 
year, largely as a result of industrialisation, logging, over-fishing and other 
commercial activities.
The declaration signed at the end of the two-week conference in Kuala Lumpur 
stated that countries would take steps to “more effectively and coherently” 
implement measures that would significantly reduce the current rate of 
biodiversity loss by 2010.
It included protecting the rights of indigenous people, the creation of a 
global network of protected areas, and controlled access to genetic resources 
with a fair sharing of money made from those resources.







full story:

http://www.nzz.ch/2004/02/21/english/page-synd4735157.html 









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