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The UN wants to halt biodiversity loss by the year 2020, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says we need up to $300 billion per year get there.
Carbon payments payments could protect orangutans, pygmy elephants in Borneo
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A new report published today provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, is one of the first to offer quantitative evidence linking the drive to reduce carbon emissions from forests with the push to preserve threatened mammal biodiversity.
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- Published: Dec 21st, 2008
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Lowering carbon emissions raises biodiversity
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REDUCING emissions from deforestation combats climate change and help the conservation of biodiversity, from amphibians and birds to primates.