Report warns of extinction, water shortage
By Associated Press
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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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