Protecting 1.2% of Earth would prevent most extinctions, study says

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SAO PAULO — 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 cost about US$263 billion (S$356 billion), according to a study published on Tuesday (June 25). The world is racing to meet a goal to protect 30 per cent of the world by...

Mexican gray wolves, an endangered native species, are seen resting in their enclosure at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Mexico July 1, 2020.SAO PAULO — 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 cost about US$263 billion , according to a study published on Tuesday .

The study in the journal Frontiers in Science aimed to identify the highest value areas in hope that they be included in those protection plans, said Carlos Peres, a study co-author and conservation ecology expert at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom."The 30-by-30 targets still lack a lot of details because it doesn't actually say what 30 per cent should be protected.

Land acquisition makes up most of the cost of creating protected areas, and the study did not consider the upkeep costs for policing the reserves.

 

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