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Report warns of extinction, water shortage
By Associated Press

- June 14, 2002 - LONDON- A quarter of the world's mammal species could face extinction within 30 years, and Millions of people could suffer severe water shortages, the United Nations said Wednesday.

In a state-of -the-world report, the U.N. Environment Program said the Earth faces more rapid, dramatic and devastating environmental change in the next three decades.

"The increasing pace of change and degree of interaction between regions and issues has made it more difficult than ever to look into the future with confidence," the organization said.

Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, said that human development " across more and more areas of the planet is not sustainable. Unless we altar our course, we will be left with very little."

The report, which was released in advance of the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development Aug. 26 to Sept. 4 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is based on contributions from more that 1,000 Scientists collaborating with the Nairobi, Kenya-based U.N. agency.

Among the most threatened are the black rhinoceros of Africa, the Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard of Asia, according to the U.N.'s World Conservation Monitoring Center.

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