SEOUL: A United Nations conference on preserving the earth’s dwindling resources opened on Monday with grim warnings that the depletion of natural habitats and species was outpacing efforts to protect them.

Just a week after conservation group WWF said wildlife numbers had halved in 40 years, governments met in South Korea to analyze progress since they agreed four years ago on 20 targets for stemming the tide of biodiversity loss.

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