Global News - May 2008
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Governments 'likely to miss extinction reduction targets'
Mon 19 May 2008 14:00 UK — Europe,Other
Reports suggest that many governments will announce at an international meeting that they are unlikely to meet targets to reduce the rate of extinction across the globe.
Reuters said that around 200 governments will announce at the Convention of Biological Diversity that they are unlikely to meet targets related to the slowing of extinction rates by 2010.
These targets were set in 2002 and many experts have already said they will be missed by some distance.
In a telephone interview with the news agency, convention executive secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf said that the prospect of future extinction rates accelerating was "frightening".
He added: "We hope to give a wake-up call to humanity. We need an unprecedented effort to meet the challenge of biodiversity loss.
"For us, the most important element is to make sure we have the ingredients to give us, as a global community, confidence we are moving in the right direction."
Norwegian environment minister Erik Solheim added that it was vital targets existed to encourage governments to improve conservation policies.
He explained: "It's a bit like the goal of world peace, even if we don't achieve it fully, it's important to have a target to strive for."
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