SAO PAULO, June 25 — Setting aside an additional 1.2 per cent of the world’s land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and...
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Global policymakers will meet at a United Nations summit in Colombia in October to discuss plans for reaching that goal. The study estimated the US$263 billion bill is how much it would cost to acquire the new areas, many of which include private property, at current value over the next five years. About three-quarters of the sites are tropical forests, as those are the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. The Phillipines, Brazil and Indonesia are home to more than half of the high-value sites.
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