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Escalating cost of forest conservation
2013-04-17 04:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation. However, a research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that in the long run, conservation incentives may struggle to compete with future agricultural yields. Their findings were first published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 15 April 2013. Financial incentives for conservation...
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