Was this on the nightly news?
Summit delivers dark verdict on biodiversity
http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&ar...
I know it's a 404 and I can't find this story anywhere on the web. Funny, I wanted to read this story. All the other ones put a positive spin on it:
http://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8&rls=org.m...
UN Conference ends with new measures to protect biodiversity
UN conference approves package to protect wildlife
etc etc
The closest you can get is:
Biodiversity: German pledges 500 million euros at UN talks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/sc_afp/enviro...
Buried in there:
"Noting less that the basis of our own survival, our very existence, is at stake," Merkel told the 6,000 representatives from 191 countries attending the meeting, launched 11 days earlier.
Participants at the conference are hoping to establish a roadmap towards negotiating, by 2010, an "Access and Benefit Sharing" regulatory framework governing access to genetic resources and sharing the benefits from their use.
Scientists say that species are becoming extinct at a dizzying rate -- between 100 and 1,000 times the natural pace of extinction.
One in four mammals, one bird in eight, one third of all amphibians and 70 percent of plants are under threat.
Development economist Pavan Sukhdev has handed the conference a preliminary report in which the lost of the benefits of biodiversity are put at 3.1 trillion dollars a year, or six percent of the planet's gross national product (GNP).