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Green under siege: world's biodiversity hotspots 85 percent impacted

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Mongabay.com

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2014-07-15

The world's 35 biodiversity hotspots—which harbor 75 percent of the planet's endangered land vertebrates—are in more trouble than expected, according to a sobering new analysis of remaining primary vegetation. In all less than 15 percent of natural intact vegetation is left in the these hotspots.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0714-hance-biodiversity-hotspots-vegetation.html