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September 16, 2020

World failing to meet all targets to save nature: UN

PARIS: Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth’s vital biodiversity, the United Nations said on Tuesday.Humanity’s impact on the natural world over the last five decades has been nothing short of cataclysmic: since 1970 close to 70 percent of wild animals, birds and fish have vanished, according to a WWF assessment this month.Last year the UN’s panel on biodiversity IPBES warned that one million species face...