BIODIVERSITY

According UN ,human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour .Many expert feel that world would fail to meet the goal set by world leaders at an Earth Summit in 2002 of a significant reduction by 2010 in the rate of species loss.Extinction rates are rising by a factor of up to 1000 above natural rates.every hour three species disappear.every day up to 150 species are lost.every year between 18,000 and 55,000 species become extinct.The World Conservation Union also said that one in every six land mammals in Europe was under threat of extinction.