Date published: 2008/04/23
The BBC says:
A new generation of medical treatments could be lost forever unless the current rate of biodiversity loss is reversed, conservationists have warned.
They say species are being lost before researchers have had the chance to examine and understand their potential health benefits.
The findings appear in Sustaining Life, a book involving more than 100 experts.
This is hardly an original idea. But it's one so-called conservationists find appealing to stress because they know full well that most people don't really care much whether millions of obscure species (e.g. insects) go extinct. (Mammals are a different matter, people like the cute ones, but there are only so many of them to go around.)
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