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Amanda Morrow

Crucial summit to halt destruction of world's biodiversity opens in Canada

Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during the opening of COP15, the two-week UN Biodiversity summit, in Montreal, Canada. REUTERS - CHRISTINNE MUSCHI

UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday in search of a deal to save the planet's forests, oceans and species from irreversible human destruction.

Scientists warn that three-quarters of the world's land and two-thirds of its seas have been degraded by human activities and one million animal and plant species are at risk of extinction.

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