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Colour-coded targets would help clarify biodiversity priorities

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In this International Year of Biodiversity, we should be setting ambitious but realistic targets for biodiversity policy over the next ten years. Those shaped at last month's sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity in Norway will be refined by the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice in May and at the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October.

As participating scientists in the international biodiversity programme DIVERSITAS, we welcome the draft set of 2020 targets proposed by the CBD. But the targets continue to mix the biodiversity we value highly (that is, the conservation agenda) and the biodiversity we urgently need to secure the benefits people derive from fully functioning ecosystems.

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  1. DIVERSITAS, 57 Rue Cuvier-CP 41, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

    Anne Larigauderie

  2. Imperial College London, Centre for Population Biology, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK

    Georgina M. Mace

  3. Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94306, California, USA

    Harold A. Mooney

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