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Biodiversity crisis
Published: 20 July 2006
Titans of biodiversity science and policy warn that the Earth is on the verge of a major crisis. "Despite this evidence, biodiversity is still consistently undervalued and given inadequate weight in both private and public decisions. There is an urgent need to bridge the gap between science and policy." Biology prof Michel Loreau of McGill is one of 19 experts from 13 countries who endorsed a report which appears in Nature.