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Publisher (J.T)
May 11, 2019
The Director-General,Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF Muhtari Aminu-Kano, has called on theFederal Government and other stakeholders to avert an environmental catastropheas a result of threats posed by extinction of one million species.
Aminu-Kanowho made the call in a statement in Abuja said, the essential interconnectedweb of life on earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed, adding thatabout one million species are now being threatened with extinction and humanityis in Peril.
Accordingto Aminu-Kano, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversityand Ecosystem Services recently released a statement titled: “Nature’sDangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’.
He saidthat some media organisations have exposed the sorry state of the nations’environment through their editorials.
TheDirector General added that despite this outcry for the federal and stategovernments to take drastic steps and salvage the nation,  political affairs receive the greatestattention at the expense of environment.