Date published: 2006/06/21
The BBC says:
Many species of beetles in the UK are in danger of dying out, a conservation charity has warned.
Buglife, which campaigns to protect endangered insects, says 250 of the UK's 4,000 species of beetle have not been seen since the 1970s.
The charity says it is vital for other animals that the variety of beetle-life is maintained, and "imperative" that action is taken now to protect them.
It warns that habitat decline means many species may already be extinct.
Conservationists say beetles play a unique and vital role in the planet's ecosystems, including burying the corpses of dead animals and pollinating flowers.
Substitute "beetle" with your favourite animal/plant and no doubt you could and would claim exactly the same. Name a single special interest pressure group (not just so-called conservation ones) which doesn't believe and claim that it is "imperative that action is taken now".
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