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Carbon storage vs. biodiversity conservation

July 2, 2015 by Roger Harris Leave a Comment

Carbon storage vs. biodiversity conservation

Recent research has profound implications for conservation organizations who base their model on carbon storage and sequestration. Up to now, conservationists (and their donors) have assumed that conserving the maximum biodiversity also stores the most carbon. It’s supposedly a win-win. But two new studies turn this assumption its head. In a July 2015 paper in […]

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