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Urgent action needed to safeguard genetic diversity of world’s forests, UN study says

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UN News Centre

Publication Date
2014-06-03

3 June 2014 – Urgent action to better manage the genetic diversity of forests – under pressure from climate change, exploitation and conversion for other uses – is needed to ensure that the benefits they provide will survive, the United Nations said in a first-of-its-kind report released today.

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