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Third of all plants and animals face extinction

May 9th, 2010

The Sunday Times

May 9, 2010

ANIMAL and plant species are being killed off faster than ever before as human populations surge and people consume more, a United Nations report is expected to say this week.  It will warn that the expansion of countries such as China, India and Brazil is adding hugely to the environmental threats already generated by developed western nations, and that a third of species could face extinction this century.

Read the full story at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7120676.ece.

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