WHAT will it take to halt the mass die-off of the world’s wildlife?
A united front would certainly be a start. Fourteen years ago the Convention on Biological Diversity made grand proposals for protecting the world’s flora and fauna; but still the treaty is bedevilled by countries arguing over who owns what in nature.
Next, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year project by the world’s top biologists, documented the scale of today’s mass extinctions. Its findings didn’t even make the front pages when they were published 16 months ago. So far governments have ignored the assessment’s key proposal for a…
