Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Highest priority conservation sites provide essential services for people too

Mongabay: Preventing the extinction of the world's most imperiled species would also bring untold benefits to people according to new research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Looking at the world's nearly 600 Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites, the study found that preserving these ecosystems would benefit humans even beyond preserving biodiversity, including safeguarding freshwater, carbon storage, and protecting cultural diversity. AZE sites are identified as habitats containing one or more species...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0605-hance-aze-ecosystem-services.html
Enclosure: http://photos.mongabay.com/j/CI.AZEreport.Santa-Marta47-XL.568.jpg

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