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<a rel="2010 the International Year of Biodiversity" href="http://e2ma.net/go/6767221054/208287215/215007471/1405789/goto:http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/%232" target="_blank">2010 the International Year of Biodiversity</a> in large part to draw attention to accelerated biodiversity losses that are damaging the very support systems humans rely on. </span></span></span></span></div>



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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Established ten years before the U.N. declaration, in 1996, Luisa Maffi, a linguist, anthropologist, and ethnobiologist, co-founded 
<a rel="Terralingua" href="http://e2ma.net/go/6767221054/208287215/215007472/1405789/goto:http://www.terralingua.org/html/home.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Terralingua</span></span></a> and continues to lead the organization as it works to sustain the biocultural diversity of life. Writes Khanna, "Terralingua researches, communicates, and seeks to ameliorate the loss of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity -- 'biocultural diversity' for short -- in part by communicating that nature and culture are inescapably linked." To read the whole article 
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