Species Monitoring Seen Helping Slow Extinctions
Species Monitoring Seen Helping Slow Extinctions NORWAY: April 10, 2008 OSLO - A planned new network to monitor life on earth from microbes to whales could help guide governments struggling to slow extinctions, experts said on Wednesday. A three-day meeting of 100 scientists and officials in Potsdam, Germany, will end on Thursday with a deal on building blocks for a "Biodiversity Observation Network" for animals and plants facing threats such as pollution or climate change.