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We are so much damage to our planet that it will soon the global economy. This bleak is according to a new United Nations report called the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO). The paper says there are many important ecosystems on our planet that are in . These “tipping ” in our natural world are where man’s negative on nature will start costing national economies. Examples of these are the of coral reefs, the destruction of huge of forest, or pollution of rivers. UN spokesman Ahmed Djoglaf said: "The news is not good. We continue to lose biodiversity at a never before seen in history - extinction rates may be up to 1,000 times higher than the historical…rate."

Scientists are worried that governments will not do to try to reduce the damage to the tipping points. World leaders will soon meet in Nairobi to measures to global biodiversity loss. They hope they can then create an international framework that will be at a convention on biological diversity in October in Japan. The GBO report how serious the threat is. It says huge numbers of species are extinction if we continue to pollute the environment. Over a of corals may soon disappear. This will have a huge impact on life and many fish species will also disappear. Countries will be fighting over much smaller of fish. This problem will be made with the increasing pollution of the world’s rivers.


 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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