The UN biodiversity convention kongre meeting has opened with warnings that the ongoing süregiden; devam eden loss of nature is hurting human societies as well as the natural world.

The two-week gathering toplanmak aims to set new targets hedef for conserving korumak life on Earth.

Japan's Environment Minister Ryo Matsumoto said biodiversity loss would become irreversible geri döndürülemez unless curbed frenlemek soon.

Much hope is being pinned tutturmak on economic analyses showing the loss of species and ecosystems is costing the global economy trillions of dollars each year.

Ahmed Djoghlaf,executive yönetim secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), described the meeting in Nagoya, Japan, as a "defining moment dönüm noktası" in the history of mankind.

"[Buddhist scholar alim] Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki said 'the problem of nature is the problem of human life'. Today, unfortunately, human life is a problem for nature," he told delegates delege in his opening speech.

Referring değinmek to the target set at the UN World Summit in 2002, he said:

"Let's have the courage to look in the eyes of our children and admit that we have failed,individually bireysel olarak and collectively ortaklaşa, to fulfil yerine getirmek the Johannesburg promise made by 110 heads of state to substantially büyük ölçüde, ciddi anlamda reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.

"Let us look in the eyes of our children and admit that we continue to lose biodiversity at an unprecedented eşi görülmemiş rate, thus mortgaging ipotek etmek their future."

Earlier this year, the UN published a major assessment - theGlobal Biodiversity Outlook- indicating that virtually gerçekte all trends gidişat spanning uzatmak the state of the natural world were heading yönetmek downwards,despite karşın conservation successes in some regions.

It showed that loss and degradation azalma of forests,coral reefs mercan kayalığı, rivers and other elements of the natural world was having an impact etki on living standards in some parts of the world - an obvious example being the extent ölçü to which loss of coral affects fish stocks.

In his opening speech, Mr Matsumoto suggested impacts could be much broader in future.

"All life on Earth exists thanks to the benefits yarar from biodiversity in the forms of fertile verimli soil, clear water and clean air," he said.

"We are now close to a 'tipping point devrilme noktası' - that is, we are about to reach a threshold eşik beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible, and may cross that threshold in the next 10 years if we do not make proactive ileriye dönük efforts for conserving biodiversity."