General News of Monday, 10 May 2010
Source: GNA
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« PrevNext »Accra, May 10, GNA – Available statistics from Birdlife International said 1,227 bird species, constituting 12.4 per cent of the 9,865 different bird species in the world are under threat of extinction. The statement, signed by Nana Kofi Adu-Nsiah, Executive Director of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission, said out of the figure, 192 species were considered to be critically endangered. [continued]