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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10100

18 March 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/biodiversity
Potoènik sounds alarm on dragonflies, beetles and butterflies

Brussels, 17/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - 2010 may have been designated the international biodiversity year, but the latest red list of animal species threatened with extinction in the EU is alarming. Published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Tuesday 16 March, the list, that was commissioned by the European Commission, reveals that 9% of butterflies, 11% of saproxylic beetles (beetles that depend on decaying wood) and 14% of dragonflies are threatened with...

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