Governments are set to miss a self-imposed goal of slowing the rate of extinctions by 2010 and as a result are putting long-term food supplies at risk, a top environmentalist said before a UN biodiversity conference. Jim Leape, Director General of the WWF, told Reuters that countries at the May 19-30 UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in the German city of Bonn must admit they are doing too little and step up their commitments.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/wwf-says-food-supply-risk-species-loss
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wwf
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/germany
