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Canada needs to up conservation game, preserving half of boreal forests: paper
2013-07-22 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Windsor Star: A group of top international scientists says Canada needs to dramatically up its conservation game to ensure its vast northern forests remain healthy in the face of increasing industrial pressure. In a paper to be presented today at the International Congress of Conservation Biology in Baltimore, Md., its authors argue that Canada needs to preserve about half of its boreal forest. That's significantly more than the 10 per cent level researchers previously thought was necessary to conserve natural...
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