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In case you weren’t aware, 2010 has been declared by the United Nations as the Year of Biodiversity. Let’s face it, considering the staggering rates of extinction now taking place around the world due to habitat loss, poaching, and other human activity–not to mention the havoc climate change could cause in the future–it’s high time we start taking biodiversity loss seriously. In that vein, and because it’s frankly their modus operandi, <a href="http://www.wwf.org.uk/news_feed.cfm?3618/Ten-to-watch-in… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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