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Extinction Looms, Study Says

Almost half the world's coral reef species face the threat of extinction, according to an environmental group's report. (Science)

GENEVA - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians, and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned today.

"Life on Earth is under serious threat,'' the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a 155-page report that describes the past five years of a losing battle to protect species, natural habitats, and geographical regions from the devastating effects of man.