Governments are being urged to agree measures for protecting open ocean and sea floor habitats at a major United Nations conservation meeting in Bonn. Argentina and Brazil are among the countries objecting to proposals put forward at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting. Scientists advising the CBD believe more protection is vital for marine areas outside national jurisdiction. The CBD is the UN agreement intended to slow the loss of the Earth's species. Its key target is to halt and begin to reverse the global decline by 2010, a target that many observers believe cannot be met. The rate of species extinctions is estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 times the rate it would be without human impacts such as loss of habitat, climate change and overfishing, and some marine ecosystems remote from land are showing signs of degradation. Read the full story here. Miss M.
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Sea Conservation
Governments are being urged to agree measures for protecting open ocean and sea floor habitats at a major United Nations conservation meeting in Bonn. Argentina and Brazil are among the countries objecting to proposals put forward at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting. Scientists advising the CBD believe more protection is vital for marine areas outside national jurisdiction. The CBD is the UN agreement intended to slow the loss of the Earth's species. Its key target is to halt and begin to reverse the global decline by 2010, a target that many observers believe cannot be met. The rate of species extinctions is estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 times the rate it would be without human impacts such as loss of habitat, climate change and overfishing, and some marine ecosystems remote from land are showing signs of degradation. Read the full story here. Miss M.
