Seabird patrols to self-healing buildings: the 15 conservation stories to watch in 2021
by Mary Hoff for Ensia from on (#5C4W3)
In their latest scan of emerging global biological conservation issues, experts assess the 15 most urgent risks society needs to address
If it did nothing else, the emergence of Covid-19 a year ago underlined for all of us the importance of anticipating and preparing for - and, as appropriate, steering the course of - things that might happen in the future.
That is, in a nutshell, the goal of the 2021 horizon scan of emerging global biological conservation issues recently published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution by the Cambridge University conservation biologist William Sutherland and a team of 24 other conservation practitioners and researchers from around the world.
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