Biodiversity Expert Proposes Conservation Strategy

Biodiversity expert E.O. Wilson has proposed a conservation strategy that involves buying the world's endangered ecosystems

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May 4, 2001, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"With plant and animal species disappearing from Earth at unprecedented rates, biodiversity expert E. O. Wilson has proposed an immediate strategy to help halt that loss: buying access to the world's most important and threatened ecosystems so they can be managed for conservation...researchers can now better predict how species are affected when habitats shrink or are sliced into patches by human activities such as logging or the building of trails. It's now known, Wilson said, that when an area of habitat is reduced by 90 percent, the amount of its biodiversity is reduced by half."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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