MARSEILLE, Sept 8 — The world’s most influential conservation congress, meeting in Marseille, will vote starting Wednesday on motions to protect and restore nature, including several that are mired in controversy.
This destruction combined with climate change, scientists have warned, could push the world’s largest tropical forest irretrievably past a “tipping point” into a savannah-like landscape. The pace at which species are going extinct is 100 to 1,000 times the normal “background” rate, a widely accepted threshold for the kind of mass-extinction event that has only occurred five times in the last half-billion years. The IUCN’s 1,400 members—government agencies, NGOs and indigenous people’s organisations—must also decide whether to recommend a moratorium on deep sea mining and reform of the International Seabed Authority , a intergovernmental regulatory body.
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