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Advocates: Nations must move faster to protect biodiversity

A hippo floats in the lagoon at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who decades ago imported three female hippos and one male in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Nearly all the world’s countries on Monday kicked off a U.N.-backed meeting aimed to prevent the loss of biodiversity on Planet Earth, seen as critical to avoid the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emergence of pathogens like the coronavirus, and the damage to both lives and livelihoods of people around the world – and indigenous peoples in particular. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, file)

FILE -King penguins walk at the Polk Penguin Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Nearly all the world’s countries on Monday kicked off a U.N.-backed meeting aimed to prevent the loss of biodiversity on Planet Earth, seen as critical to avoid the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emergence of pathogens like the coronavirus, and the damage to both lives and livelihoods of people around the world – and indigenous peoples in particular. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya,file)

Advocates: Nations must move faster to protect biodiversity