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1 Jun 2012
Mark Avery's daily blog from RIO+20
By Adrian Long
Dr Mark Avery, former Conservation Director of the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK), is a writer on the environment. Each day on 1-20 June he is writing a blog about biodiversity, sustainability and global issues – such as the Arctic, rainforests, oceans and climate change. He says: "to come are New York’s water supply, neonicotinoids, coral reefs, how to feed the world and much more." Read Mark's daily RIO+20 postsGet Mark's posts via a RSS feed
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