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Posted Fri Apr 4 2014: from Reuters:
A quarter of Europe's bumblebees, vital to crops, face extinction: study http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1396640998
Almost a quarter of Europe's bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed on Wednesday. Sixteen of 68 bumblebee species in Europe are at risk, the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said. It is preparing a global study of the bees, whose honeybee cousins are in steep decline because of disease.
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