Panay Monitor Lizard (Varanus mabitang) © Tim Laman
Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A major new assessment of the threats to the world’s biodiversity shows that the continuing encroachment on many species’ habitats is increasing their vulnerability. The 2009 edition of world’s most comprehensive list of life under threat of extinction, the Red List of Threatened Species, was published Tuesday 3 November. The Red List is published yearly by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in Gland, near Geneva.
“The scientific evidence of a serious extinction crisis is mounting,” says Jane Smart, Director of IUCN’s Biodiversity Conservation Group.
Lausanne/Sion, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Valais police are investigating an incident in which a man pulled a knife on a youth Friday night 11 September at the Sion train station. The man was buying a ticket at a machine when a group of seven youths aged between 17 and 20 approached him, acting threateningly, he told police. He pulled out a pocket knife, and in the skirmish that followed, one of the youths was hurt, and taken to hospital, according to the Valais police.
Late Saturday night 12 September, a young American student in Lausanne was attacked by two young men and four young women as he was out near Parc Montbenon. Parc Montbenon was the scene 1 September of a knifing on a young Algerian man who later died of his injuries.
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Background: “Non-Swiss juveniles kill youth, send police to hospital in separate crimes” 07 September 2009, GenevaLunch
