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By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent
Destruction and damage to wetlands and rivers is putting one in six dragonfly species at risk of extinction, the first global assessment of them has found.
The warning comes in the latest update of.
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In Central and South America, the major cause of their decline is clearing of forests for residential and commercial construction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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