Ecosystem Services: Nature’s Gifts That Help Us Thrive

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By Gemma AlexanderAug 6, 2020, 5:00 am237 pts
How valuable is nature? A recent study of the economic value that could be created by protecting 30% of the world’s land as wilderness, which absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and provides biological diversity, found that the cost would be repaid by more than 500%. Environmentalists understand that the…

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