Losing Ground in Biodiversity Hotspots Worldwide

ENN
Oct 29, 2020, 6:03 pm401 pts
Between 1992 and 2015, the world’s most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, or gobbled up by urban sprawl.

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