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201024Sep15:59

The 2010 bio­di­ver­sity tar­get will not be met!

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pub­lished 24 Sep­tem­ber 2010 | mod­i­fied 29 April 2010
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A new 2010 BIP paper pub­lished in lead­ing jour­nal Sci­ence pro­vides proof that world lead­ers have failed to deliver com­mit­ments made in 2002 to reduce the rate of bio­di­ver­sity loss. Instead they have over­seen alarm­ing bio­di­ver­sity declines.

The find­ing in the 2010 Bio­di­ver­sity Indi­ca­tors Part­ner­ship paper rep­re­sent the first assess­ment of how tar­gets made through the 2002 Con­ven­tion on Bio­log­i­cal Diver­sity (CBD) have not been met. Over 30 bio­di­ver­sity indi­ca­tors were com­piled, includ­ing changes in species’ pop­u­la­tions and risk of extinc­tion, habi­tat extent and com­mu­nity com­po­si­tion, and there was found no evi­dence for a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion in the rate of decline of bio­di­ver­sity. On the other hand they found the pres­sures fac­ing bio­di­ver­sity con­tinue to increase. The syn­the­sis pro­vides over­whelm­ing and sober­ing evi­dence that the 2010 tar­get has not been achieved. (Source: press release 2010BIPUNEPWCMC, 29.04.2010)

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