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World isn’t meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds
Associated Press ^ | September 15, 2020 | Christina Larson and Seth Borenstein

Posted on 09/15/2020 9:34:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.

In 2010, more than 150 countries agreed to goals to protect nature, but the new United Nations scorecard found that the world has largely failed to meet 20 different targets to safeguard species and ecosystems.

Six of those 20 goals were “partially achieved,” and the rest were not. […]

Inger Andersen, who leads the U.N. environment program, called it a global failure.

“From COVID-19 to massive wildfires, floods, melting glaciers and unprecedented heat, our failure to meet the Aichi (biodiversity) targets — protect our our home — has very real consequences,” Andersen said. “We can no longer afford to cast nature to the side.” …

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: biodiversity; envirowackos; fakenews; untiednations
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To: Olog-hai

Ask them what the solution is and they call you a racist.


21 posted on 09/15/2020 11:51:27 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: Olog-hai

They might have discovered an ‘extinct’ thylacine in Tasmania a few years ago. I believe that the Ivory-Billed is alive, too.


22 posted on 09/15/2020 1:45:55 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: Olog-hai

"there is a vaccine for this."

23 posted on 09/15/2020 2:21:53 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: Diogenesis

Gates wife looks more like a husband to me...


24 posted on 09/15/2020 2:23:20 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. - President Donald Trump)
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To: Diogenesis
Can’t figure out which is which.


25 posted on 09/15/2020 2:51:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

LOLOL!!


26 posted on 09/15/2020 2:53:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Scary how the left illustration seems to represent reality better.


27 posted on 09/15/2020 5:46:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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