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Escaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: experts warn worse crises to come; offer options to reduce risk

IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Highlights: Intergovernmental council on pandemic prevention; risk drivers include deforestation, wildlife trade; tax high pandemic-risk

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Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report

UN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal 11-month-old Sumatran orangutans. (c) Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark, natgeophotoark.org Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed

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In the news: 30 clients’ most noted news releases of the decade

Terry Collins & Associates, Toronto, December 31, 2019   Many of the ~200 science news releases written and distributed for 30 clients in the 2010s

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Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’

IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Current global response insufficient; ‘transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature; opposition from vested interests

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Worsening worldwide land degradation now ‘critical,’ undermining well-being of 3.2 billion people

IPBES, Bonn 26 March,  2018 Main cause of species loss; driver of the migration of millions of people by 2050 In landmark 3-year assessment report,

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Pollinators Vital to Our Food Supply Under Threat

IPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options for Safeguarding Pollinators Kuala Lumpur

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Put Government Policy Options Through a Science Test First, Leading Biodiversity Experts Urge

Diversitas, Paris 17-Feb-2011 How should a new ‘IPCC for biodiversity’ work? Leading world scientists offer prescription In the journal Science this week, leading scientists say

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World will miss 2010 target to stem biodiversity loss, experts say

DIVERSITAS, Paris 11-Oct-2009 Growing water needs, mismanagement leading to ‘catastrophic decline’ in freshwater biodiversity The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss

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Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers

19 July 2006 DIVERSITAS, Paris Robert Watson Warning that Earth is on the verge of “a major biodiversity crisis,” 19 of the field’s most distinguished

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