Thursday 3 April 2014

Quarter of Europe's bumblebee species risk extinction: study

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Quarter of Europe's bumblebee species risk extinction: study
Geneva (AFP) April 02, 2014 - Almost a quarter of European bumblebee species are threatened with extinction, largely because of climate change and intensive farming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Wednesday. In a European Union-funded study of all 68 bumblebee species found in Europe, the environmental group found that 24 percent were on the verge of disappearing. The research also found ... more


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