8 of the World's Most Endangered Places

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8 of the World's Most Endangered Places
By Stephanie Pappas, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor,
July 01, 2010,
LiveScience.com

Ranking the world's most endangered places isn't easy. Humans have encroached upon nearly every habitat on the planet, and climate change threatens places from coastlines to glaciers worldwide.

But some threatened spots would be a particularly devastating loss to the planet's biodiversity. Here are eight places that could disappear, taking with them thousands of species of plants and animals.