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Poster released on World Environment Day

Staff Reporter

BAPATLA: Forum for Better Bapatla released a poster on Friday to mark the World Environment Day.

The theme of World Environment Day 2010 is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future,” focuses on the conservation of Biodiversity.

The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity.

Explaining the significance of the day at a meeting held in Bapatla, Forum Convener, P.C. Sai Babu said that the day marked the creation of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through a resolution adapted by the United Nations General Assembly.

The resolution was adapted by United Nations Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm.

Mr. Sai Babu went on to say that there were an estimated 100 million species, out of which scientists have only managed to identify about 2 million species so far.

A total of 17,291 species are threatened with extinction – from little-known plants and insects to charismatic birds and mammals, he said.

Unrestrained development and human activity over the last few centuries, half of the wetlands have been drained, three quarters of all fish stocks depleted, and heat-trapping gases emitted to keep our planet warming for centuries to come, he added.

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