Sublinhe no texto as palavras COGNATAS. We are causing so much...

Sublinhe no texto as palavras COGNATAS. We are causing so much damage to our planet that it will soon affect the global economy. This
bleak warning is according to a new United Nations report called the Global Biodiversity Outlook
(GBO). The paper says there are many important ecosystems on our planet that are in danger.
These “tipping points” in our natural world are where man’s negative impact on nature will start
costing national economies. Examples of these are the deaths of coral reefs, the destruction of
huge areas of forest, or major pollution of rivers. UN spokesman Ahmed Djoglaf said: "The news
is not good. We continue to lose biodiversity at a rate never before seen in history - extinction
rates may be up to 1,000 times higher than the historical...rate.”
Scientists are worried that governments will not do enough to try to reduce the damage to the
tipping points. World leaders will soon meet in Nairobi to discuss measures to tackle global
biodiversity loss. They hope they can then create an international framework that will be
adopted at a convention on biological diversity in October in Japan. The GBO report outlines how
serious the threat is. It says huge numbers of species are facing extinction if we continue to
pollute the environment. Over a quarter of corals may soon disappear. This will have a huge
impact on marine life and many fish species will also disappear. Countries will be fighting over
much smaller stocks of fish. This problem will be made worse with the increasing pollution of the