Call to settle ocean care dispute (BBC)

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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Governments are being urged to agree measures for protecting open ocean and sea floor habitats at a major United Nations conservation meeting in Bonn.

Argentina and Brazil are among the countries objecting to proposals put forward at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting.

Scientists advising the CBD believe more protection is vital for marine areas outside national jurisdiction.

The CBD is the UN agreement intended to slow the loss of the Earth's species.

Its key target is to halt and begin to reverse the global decline by 2010, a target that many observers believe cannot be met.
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