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e hole
erating
Endangered species
THE International Union for the
Conservation of Nature has
shields the Earth from
issued a stark warning that
ultra-violet rays that can
almost 50% of the worldʼs
cause skin cancer, began
primates now face extinction.
to thin relatively late.
Hundreds of scientists have
“During the last couple of
taken part in a study over ten
weeks it has grown rapidly
years to provide the most
and has now passed the
up-to-date information available
maximum size attained in
on the plight of the worldʼs
2007. Since the ozone hole
animals.
is still growing, it is too
The resulting IUCN Red List
early to determine how
revealed that some 39% of
large this yearʼs ozone
primates and sub-species are
hole will be,” the WMO said
coded as either vulnerable,
in a statement.
endangered or critically
The ozone hole covered
endangered.
27 million square km as of
It states 303 of the 634 species
mid-September, against 25
and sub-species are in the most
million square km at its
threatened categories.
2007 peak, say the WMO.
l Click Source: The Guardian
between 5000 – 7000 tonnes of honey are
produced in the UK each year. That figure is
expected to touch just 2000 tonnes for 2008.
Experts are now to investigate amid fears that
the 25% of UK harvested crops that need
pollinated by bees could be put at risk also.
l Click Source: The Independent
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