Conserving Biodiversity Coldspots
By Michelle Ann Marvier, Peter Kareiva
Recent calls to direct conservation funding to the world's biodiversity hotspots may be bad investment advice
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July-August 2003
Volume 91, Number 4
Page 344
DOI: 10.1511/2003.26.344
The numbers are chilling. Every year tropical forests covering an area the size of Poland are destroyed. With them, perhaps ten thousand species are wiped out annually, most before they can be so much as cataloged. Some liken the current calamity to the last episode of mass extinction—65 million years ago when a wayward asteroid killed off the dinosaurs along with about two-thirds of the species then in existence.
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