Biodiversity nears 'point of no return'

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Biodiversity nears 'point of no return'
Page last updated at 23:02 GMT, Sunday, 17 January 2010
Hilary Benn

BBC News - Biodiversity nears 'point of no return'
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In 2002, the world's governments made a commitment to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

Although it is hard to measure how much biodiversity we have, we do know these targets have not been met.

Our ecological footprint - what we take out of the planet - is now 1.3 times the biological capacity of the Earth...