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Nature's Backbone at Risk
Do conservation efforts work? SSG participates in global analysis
Nagoya, Japan, Wednesday 27 October 2010 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD, in Nagoya, Japan.
“Less than a quarter of the world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras are safe – there is a real chance that our grandchildren will know many sharks only from photographs”, said Dr Nicholas Dulvy Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Simon Fraser University and co-chair of IUCN's Shark Specialist Group. “This study shows that conservation is a lifeboat for biodiversity and we need more of it.”
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