Germany Unveils Plan For New Wildlife Areas
Germany outlined plans on Tuesday to extend the world's "protected areas" to conserve natural habitats and appealed to industrialised states to donate cash to aid developing nations meet the costs. Germany, president of a UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn, announced its "Life Web Initiative" on the second day of the May 19-30 meeting and said it aimed to create a greater number of protected zones and better coordinate them. About 4,000 delegates have gathered in Bonn to try to agree on ways to slow the rate of loss of plant and animal life.