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Evidence shows that farms that share landscapes with wild nature, such as remnant forests and trees, benefit from the ecosystem services provided.
The Earth is losing plants and animals at rates not seen in millions of years. Ecologists explain how protecting habitat on working lands – farms, forests and ranches – can help conserve species.
As the twin crises of climate change and Covid-19 continue to unfold, a traditional crop can help South American communities preserve biodiversity and their heritage.
New research identifies areas where species may take refuge as the climate changes and finds they're largely unprotected.
The hope is that the biodiversity targets translate directly into what individual countries, cities, companies and even families can adopt as tangible actions.
At an international summit in Egypt this month, nations will hopefully make progress towards recognising the economic value of wildlife and other environmental assets.
More than two-thirds of Earth's remaining wilderness is in the hands of just five countries, according to a new global map. A concerted conservation effort is needed to save our last wild places.
Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we'll miss some of the targets.
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral researcher, biodiversity conservation and climate change, Monash University
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Research scientist, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Director of CORDIO in East Africa and Adjunct Fellow, Pwani University
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Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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CGIAR System Organization
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Research Associate, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta
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PhD candidate in Agroecology, Université de Montpellier
