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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Emma Farge

World delegates appear to kick deal to halt nature loss into long grass

FILE PHOTO: Bees fly near a thermosolar hive in Chrudim May 25, 2015. Picture taken May 25, 2015. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo

Negotiations on an ambitious global biodiversity deal to halt or reverse nature loss closed in Switzerland on Tuesday, with countries agreeing to little more than further talks in June.

The Geneva meeting of around 1,000 negotiators from 164 countries was meant to be the last before the postponed U.N. Convention on Biodiversity meeting in the Chinese city of Kunming where countries are due to ratify a deal to protect some 1 million plant and animal species threatened with extinction.

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