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The Government has completely banned the use of Cypermethrin sheep dip, a pesticide that is estimated to have killed 1.5 billion freshwater animals a year before its...
25% of mammal species threatened
30th June 2010
1,141 mammal species – 25 per cent of those known to science – are threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN. At least 76 have become extinct since 1500AD, but 5 per cent of threatened species are showing signs of recovery.
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