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Page last updated at 02:44 GMT, Friday, 16 May 2008 03:44 UK
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Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, says the Living Planet Index.
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The wheels continue to turn on Europe's billion-euro project to put a robotic rover on the Red Planet's surface.
Polar bears (file picture) US lists polar bear as threatened
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