Stopping Extinctions: Immediate Targets and Expanded Partnerships
Science, conference, species | (2)
As the climax of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, the world's governments* will meet in Nagoya, Japan, in October, to agree on a global biodiversity target.
What might this target look like?
Writing in the prestigious scientific journal "Nature" this week the President of IUCN, Dr Ashok Khosla, and the Director-General of IUCN, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, argue that the target must be an ambitious one.
Khosla and Marton-Lefèvre propose that in the short-term, the world's governments must bring a stop to the loss of biodiversity – "in particular, by setting an intermediate target to prevent further extinctions", because extinctions are irreversible – once ...
