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Climate change challenges: What zoos can do? [1]

Today, climate change is the most potentially dangerous
environmental threat facing human beings and other life forms. The impact of climate change will be particularly severe in the tropical areas such as South Asia. South Asian countries already face tremendous pressure due to increased population growth, urbanization, industrialization and other economic developments.
Climate change is an additional stress on ecological and socioeconomic systems in this region.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2008
Sally Walker [2], B.A. Daniel [3], Paul Pearce-Kelly [4]
Zoos' Print [5]
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Ecosystems [6], Climate Change [7], Endangered Species [8], Zoos [9], Wildlife [10], Biodiversity [11], Asia [12], Global [13]
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