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Report: African, Asian, Latin American farm animals face extinction

09-03-2007 · EurekAlert!

With the world's first global inventory of farm animals showing many breeds of African, Asian, and Latin American livestock at risk of extinction, scientists from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research today called for the rapid establishment of genebanks to conserve the sperm and ovaries of key animals critical for the global population's future survival.

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