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Twelve Percent of Marine Species in Tropical Eastern Pacific Threatened

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San Francisco Chronicle

Publication Date
2012-02-22

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction, according to a study by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and its partners.

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