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  • Professor of Terrestrial Ecology, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University
Trash or treasure? Some birds rely heavily on landfill to supplement their diet. AAP Image/Tony Phillips

Reducing food waste could put birds and animals at risk

Ninah Kopel, The Conversation

Well-intended efforts to reduce food waste could threaten some birds and animal species, a new paper has warned.
Ironically, meeting global targets to preserve a proportion of the world’s forest could weaken motivation to protect the rest of it. Jami Dwyer/Wikimedia Commons

Conservation parks are growing, so why are species still declining?

Ro Hill, CSIRO; Barry Newell, Australian National University; Iain Gordon, James Hutton Institute, and Michael Dunlop, CSIRO

It’s now five years since the International Year of Biodiversity, and nearly 15% of Earth’s land surface is protected in parks and reserves. By 2020, we should reach the agreed global target of 17%. This…

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