25 August, 1998 10% OF WORLD'S TREE SPECIES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION Geneva - The World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), IUCN -- the World Conservation Union and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) today announced that 10% of the world's known tree species face extinction.

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